Continue your walk on the ‘Veerstal’ up to the red coloured building, ‘Tolhuis’ (Toll house). Walk around it and keep the building to your left and take the right, the east side of the canal, ‘Oosthaven. Immediately go right again and walk up to ‘De Punt’ 

The city council decided to develop a second (bigger) fulling mill following the success of the first version. A new water lock was constructed between the  ‘Spieringstraat’ and the river “Hollandsche IJssel”.  Despite now having two fulling mills at its disposal, the textile industry started to decline. Around 1650 both mills were mainly used for rope and yarn manufacturing instead of the textile industry. Later on they were transformed to facilitate wood sawing and oil production. The larger fulling mill was used for preparation of lam skin to leather, which polluted the water in the canals and produced an awful smell in town. 

In 1869 the operations in both fulling mills were discontinued. The water wheels were removed in 1870.

The building of the large fulling mill has been used as a warehouse for another famous industry in Gouda: cheese manufacturing. The locks are currently used to flush the water of all inner city canals in Gouda’s centre, to the rivers outside town. Early 2000 pumps were removed and the original gate system was restored to clean and flush the water in the canals on a weekly basis. The old sluice gate below the large Volmolen was renovated in 2007 and is open for visitors on the National Monuments day.