Mike Thurlow, miller at Letheringsett watermill, Norfolk, died in his sleep on the morning of 22nd June.
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He rescued Letheringsett mill near Holt mill in 1987. Not only did he bring it back into working order, he and his widow, Marion, built a thriving trade in their traditional stone-ground flour.
As pointed out by Country file (their picture), “In 2006 he won a UKTV Food Hero Award, which enabled him to buy a new pair of quartz millstones from Holland, which doubled his output.”
He was a stalwart of the Traditional Cornmillers’ Guild, having learned the trade from scratch on leaving the Royal Navy in the 1980s.