Author: Mildred Cookson

Successful Country Mills

During my research at the Mills Archive, I often encounter records of successful country mills from the early 20th century....

Military Millers

The Second Anglo-Boer War began on 11 October 1899. The war between the British Empire and the Boer republics was...

Letting the cat out of the bag

I doubt that many people have ever heard the name Judson Moss Bemis or his brother Stephen, who would introduce...

30 Years Milling

This blog is based on several oral history interviews with our founder Mildred Cookson about her time as the miller...

Getting the Sack

Continuing our story of packaging flour in the US (see our previous blog), we move on from wooden barrels to...

Roll out the Barrel

Flour packaging has always been important for millers, and has changed greatly over time – had it not progressed alongside...

The Staff of Life

“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens. Bread is the king...

From Barrels to Sacks

The articles on which this newsletter is based first appeared in Mill Memories 26, Spring 2020 and 28, Spring 2021....

The British Engineering Works of William Gardner and Sons

Last May I featured William Gardner of Gloucester in a brief review of 10 succesful milling engineers with works in the UK. ...

Mills make the world go round

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

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