Month: June 2021

Mills make the world go round saw mills

Mills are most well-known for grinding corn into flour. Over the centuries mills powered by wind, water and other power sources...

Feeding the World: The first milling stones

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics...

Tales from Rex Wailes. Ups and downs of the old type millwrights

In the Rex Wailes collection is a file of correspondence with John Bryant. Born 1861, Bryant was, in his own...

British and Irish Flour Mills. James Comerford’s Roller Mills, County Wicklow, Ireland

As with my previous articles, I have chosen accounts from The Miller or Milling describing successful mills from the early...

Betty Sullivan (1902-1999)

 “The only sound knowledge I possess is the realization of my own little worth” Betty Julia Sullivan was a female...

Archiving at home

This week is Volunteers’ Week, and to mark it we’d like to say a HUGE thank you to all our...

Water powered grain milling in southern and eastern England between the 5th and 11th centuries

The use of water powered grain mills can be linked with the evolution of a flexible low capital input cereal...

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