Purity, Quality and Merit. This Gem is a Certificate of Excellence, issued by the Royal Instituation of Public Health and Hygiene to certify that the Homeland Flour produced by Witherington and Over fulfilled their required quality standards. Witherington & Over was a milling company in Reading, not far from where the Archive is now at…
Transport links are the lifeline of milling. This photograph shows a steam wagon outside Sonning watermill. The wagon is called Catherine Cooper; it was produced by E R Foden, a British truck and bus manufacturing company, and is an overtype steam wagon. The man on the right is the mill owner Mr Witherington with his son, whilst…