On the Wyck side, where no Jeker was available and therefore no water mills, one had to make do with so-called horse-driven mills, as the two gable stones at Corversplein 12 and Hoogbrugstraat 54 show.
In these grist mills, various kinds of grain were coarsely ground. They ground mainly buckwheat, barley and Myrica gale or gruit, a mixture of herbs used to flavour beer.
At this address there was an inscription on the canopy, noted in 1731 in the book "Koddige Opschriften" (=Funny Inscriptions) by Jeroen Jeroense: "In the Wycker groat mill one can get hard ship's groats cheaply; as cheap as one has to pay for the bad quality with another".
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