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Ladies please

Heage gets a lady miller (though they seem to have forgotten Mildred Cookson…) and a US lady miller is also featured.

Poster Image

Belper news http://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/Heage-Windmill-gets-a-lady.5727825.jp
exaggerates Heage’s claim for “the only female flour miller in in the country”. Mildred has been the miller at Mapledurham for 30 years!

Of more interest (see picture of Windmill Island Gardens miller Alisa Crawford sitting outside Holland’s DeZwaan windmill) is the new lady windmiller trained in Holland to work in the USA:
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/10/windmill_island_miller_receive.html