Lindekemale Mill

Today it was time again to take son no 1 to the train station at Zaventem to go home to Holland. On the way back I stopped at Woluwe St Lambert , where there's a big shopping centre but also a nice park and I was hoping to see some cygnets or other young myself and take pictures. The park is called Parc Malou, after the castle which was built in 1767 and which later belonged to the Catholic politician and financier Jules Malou. His descendants gave the castle to their town in 1951.
There were swans with cygnets, geese and coots in the big pond (has anyone ever noticed just how big the feet of coots are , see picture on Blipfolio!?) but I decided on this picture for my journal.

This watermill you see here forms the entrance to one side of the park, it's called Lindekemale Molen (Lindekemale (=mill near the lime trees) Mill)
Info from this site:

Built downstream from the confluence of the Woluwe and Struykbeek, this former grist mill, mentioned in texts as early as 1129, used water from both of these streams to increase its power. In the 19th century, paper was also made here.
Around 1900, faced with competition from the milling industry, the managers opened the Mill Milk Bar a place where walkers stopped to quench their thirst.
Acquired by the town in 1955, this is the only mill to have survived the urbanisation of the valley. The paddle wheel was restored in 1994.

The building is in use by a restaurant now, hence the rather distracting strings of fairy lights, I think: Moulin de Lindekemale