Callington Mill
been restored so that it is now in full working order and is the only operating mill of its type in the Southern Hemisphere.
Traditional baker and blacksmith Alan Scott was a central figure at the mill.
It said: His attempt to let the mill appears to have been unsuccessful and two years later he sold it to his eldest son John Jubilee Vincent.
[8] He was the son of a convict named Robert Jillett and his wife Elizabeth Bradshaw, a free settler, who arrived in Sydney in 1799.
At one time in the early 1860s he rented the mill to William Exton who left in 1862.
[11] In 1863 Thomas Jillett sold the mill to his nephew John Bradshaw and a few years later left Tasmania and bought a sheep property in the Wimmera in Victoria.
[14] In 1873 he installed a Boddington mill stone and a very descriptive account of this was given in the newspaper.
In 1880 John Bradshaw advertised the sale of the mill[16] and shortly after it was bought by Percy Douglas MacLaren.
Percy bought Callington mill several years after their marriage and operated it until about 1892.
Their eldest son also named Percy joined the Tasmanian Bushman Contingent to fight in the Boer War.
After Percy and Charlotte left Oatlands in about 1892 it appears that the mill ceased operating and not long after the sails were removed for safety reasons.
'Millers Way' guided tours of the Mill Precinct and Tower happen daily (10am-3pm, on every hour).
The mill featured on the Tasmanian ABC Television program Stateline on April 30, 2010.
