Flour has played a crucial role in society for thousands of years. As a staple part of our diets it...
Purity, Quality and Merit. This Gem is a Certificate of Excellence, issued by the Royal Instituation of Public Health and...
Meet Biddy who worked for Bemis Bags for 79 years. Introduced as a company trademark in the 1880s for Bemis...
Mill don’t just grind flour. This is a donkey-powered rice mill in China. It makes use of an Edge Runner Stone rather...
Mills come in all shapes and sizes: sometimes they even come with a camel. This postcard shows a camel-driven Saqiya...
This curious contraption is a chondrometer and is used for measuring the quality of grain. This unusual Gem is a...
One of the oldest books in our collection, a guide for centuries of millwrights. This fascinating Gem is an enormous...
Hello, it’s me again. Unbelievably I am now halfway through my internship at the Mills Archive (insert obligatory Bon Jovi...
‘Safe as a thief in a mill.’ Millers have historically had a terrible reputation. Old sayings such as ‘honest millers...
“Newport’s cattle market had not seen anything like it before. There, talking business among the weather-beaten faces of Isle of...
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