The miller's house as in 1938

Michel & Clara invite you into their home as in 1938

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Discover the miller's father's house rehabilitated as it was in 1938.

The visit includes a guided tour of the three small rooms of the building: a dining room, its adjoining room and a kitchen, the viewing of a film directed by Gérard Rauwel and Alain Desreveaux devoted to the inhabitants of yesteryear and a meeting with Michel and Clara in the form of automatons relating their lives.

For people with reduced mobility, the visit to the mill can be replaced by a more complete visit to the miller's house, which will include the For people with reduced mobility, the visit to the mill can be replaced by a more complete visit to the miller's house, which will include an explanation of the mill's operation by a guide with video support.

The Miller's House is

An immersion in a home of the past
The discovery of the organisation of daily life around the mill
The encounter with automatons made by an artist from the Hauts de France region

Creation : 2014
Automats : Bruno Dehondt

At Michel & Clara's

Reconstitution

The miller's house was reconstructed in the family home where the present miller, Joseph Markey, grew up! It was his initiative that gave rise to the idea of refurbishing it in the image of what it was during his childhood.

It was with great heart that Joseph Markey renovated the house that his parents, Michel and Clara Markey, had bought in 1938 with the aim of creating a home and seeing their offspring grow up there.

For two years, the miller remodelled the interior of the house in order to give visitors to the Steenmeulen site a slice of the past of 20th century rural life in the North, and more specifically of life in French Flanders.

The result of his efforts was inaugurated in September 2014, during the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Steenmeulen in the company of Michel and Clara Markey, whose features were reproduced by Bruno Dehondt, a passionate automaton craftsman from the Gigottos workshop in Esquelbecq.

Come and visit them, they will tell you all about their past life!

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