Examining the remaining mechanisms of a sluice gate in New Mills, I ponder if someone stood at the same place decades ago and stared at the engineering marvel. Did they think the ingenious device was more permanent than them? Perhaps, but it was not permanent either. The remnants of the mills today, which drove economic wealth for a century, is little more than a skeleton of a bygone economy. We could look at many of things we see every day, objects and places we take for granted, and spare a thought that they and we will pass as well.
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