Author: Hannah Pomeroy

New webpage teaser (and Fred the Flour Grader)

So I have come to the end of my initial three months interning at the Mills Archive. However, this is...

The surprising uses for flour sacks!

This week, I have been doing research on the final stages of the milling process, what happens to the flour...

The Advent of Modern Milling

From the end of the 19th century, the traditional technique of using stones to grind wheat into flour was superseded...

A welcome visit from the London & South East Milling Society

This week has seen some different events take place in the Archive so I thought I’d provide a round-up of...

Thomas Hardy and the World of Milling

‘Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change’. This quotation from Thomas Hardy could aptly...

William Cornwell and Sun Flour Mills

One of the categories that will be in the new roller milling webpages will be ‘Stories from the Archive’. Within...

Building a mill, without the twiddly bits

This week I have started to write up sections about the process of building a roller mill and have stumbled...

The Great British (and American) Bake Off!

In today’s day and age, if you turned on the television, it would not take you long to find one...

Bowled over by our latest finds!

With the Premier League having just started, England’s women progressing to the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup and the...

The mill with a confused identity

Taking a leaf out of Lydia’s book, I too have been looking through the John Munnings Collection again this week!...

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