The event will run from 11am to 5pm on Sunday 9 May coinciding with National Mills Weekend; a national event when water and wind mills throughout the country are open to the public. During the day other quality food producers will also be in attendance offering their products from fresh meat and cakes to real ale.

It promises to be an excellent day out for all the family to enjoy; the water mill will be working and milling wheat, the 1904 Oil Engine will also be in operation together with bread being baked in the 18^th century bread oven. Visitors can enjoy refreshments by the mill pond and bread made with mill flour will be on sale.

A special bus will run from The Tourist Information Centre in Bury St Edmunds on the day or follow the brown signs to the Water Mill from the A143 to Diss road.

Free Admission all Day!

Traditional fen eel traps, wood turning on a pole lathe and coracle making are some of the unusual and fascinating old crafts being demonstrated at Pakenham Water Mill in a special event on Sunday 12 September. Visitors will also be able to see flour being milled in the traditional way using millstones driven by the mill’s huge iron water wheel. There will be demonstrations of baking in the old brick bread oven and the 100 year-old Blackstone oil engine will be running. All this in a beautiful setting beside the millpond, where you can sit and enjoy a BBQ lunch or tea and cakes with a brass band playing in the background.

A 100 year-old Blackstone oil engine will be one of the star attractions at Pakenham Water Mill’s annual Vintage Power Day on Sunday June 20. Built in 1904 by the famous Blackstone Engine Company of Stamford in Lincolnshire, it was installed at the water mill in 1930 to drive a roller mill for producing white flour. After many years of neglect it has been restored by Chris Irwin and Jim Clarke, two of the volunteers at the mill, and visitors can see and hear it running on this special open day. Enthusiasts from all over Suffolk will also be there to demonstrate a range of smaller stationary engines and there will be a spectacular display of vintage cars.

As usual at this popular event the mill will be working and visitors can see fine wholemeal flour being  ground  in the traditional way or watch a demonstration of baking in the old brick bread oven. The tearoom will be open for light refreshments and the mill shop will be selling ice-creams, gifts and of course the mill’s own flour. A special treat is the freshly baked bread made by Viv Sutcliffe also on sale in the shop – but get there early because it goes very quickly!

Come and see flour being milled, bread being baked in the old brick oven      and talk to the millers and bakers. The food fair sells local food from specialist Suffolk producers including rare-breed meats, handmade cakes, fresh Jersey cream and delicious bread baked by master baker Viv Sutcliffe using Pakenham Water Mill flour.