Le Moulin de Lecq: Jersey Topic Feature 1966

Le Moulin de Lecq: Jersey Topic Feature 1966

[Note - if a copy appears on Jerripedia, it was my transcription stolen from here without credit]

Le Moulin de Lecq was one of the many ancient water mills of the Island. It retains the topical name it bore over 600 years ago.

It was a working Flour Mill as late as 1929, commandeered by the Germans during the Occupation of Jersey, and used to generate power for their searchlight batteries in this part of the Island throughout the war years until the Liberation.

In April 1955 the ‘Mill’ was granted a licence, and it was decided to convert it into an ‘Inn’, restoring the original Outside Water Wheel, which weighs 18 tons and has a diameter of 21 feet and works entirely by the weight of water as it did hundreds of years ago.

  

Around the inside working Mill machinery a most delightful ‘Mill Room Cocktail Bar and Lounge’ has been designed. The 'Granary Cocktail Bar’ upstairs, where all the grinding took place, has an atmosphere of its own and contains many of the instruments of the old mill, with its parafin lamps and corn sack style cushions.

The ‘Inn' has become one of the show places of Jersey with its very attractive young ladies dressed in Breton costume to serve you. Standing in several acres of its own meadow and woodland, at night it presents a wonderful picture as it is beautifully floodlit.

The Inn is open all day during the season, from 11 am. To 11 p.m., except Sundays 12.00 to 1 p.m., and 3.30 pm. to 10 pm.

A very delightful and warm welcome always awaits you at Le Moulin de Lecq.