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East End’s Three Mills site gets restoration ‘green light’ in time for Olympics

House Mill in LB Newham – a Grade I-listed flour mill of international importance and perched on the edge of the Olympic Park – has been given the green light by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a £2.65million* grant. A development grant of £248,000 has been awarded to help the River Lea Tidal Mill…

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Mill Named Brewery of the Year

Donnington Brewery in the Cotswolds has been named the UK’s Brewery of the Year by the Good Pub Guide. According to the guide’s editors, Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley, the 145-year old brewery near Stow on the Wold merits  special praise. “… based at a picturesque ancient watermill, which operates in Gloucestershire”. The brewery, hidden…

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Goole mill to be revamped

Looking at this sorry photo, hard to disagree… http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642454 The report http://www.goolecourier.co.uk/news/Windmill-revamped-by-Morrisons.5956876.jp from the Goole Courier says that Morrisons have applied for planning permission as part of big new supermarket development and wish to  use the base as a store. The Grade II listed building looks in need of much work.

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Ladies please

Heage gets a lady miller (though they seem to have forgotten Mildred Cookson…) and a US lady miller is also featured. Belper news http://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/Heage-Windmill-gets-a-lady.5727825.jpexaggerates Heage’s claim for “the only female flour miller in in the country”. Mildred has been the miller at Mapledurham for 30 years! Of more interest (see picture of Windmill Island Gardens miller…

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History of the Tornado Windmill Co

In the latest set of links to news items, an interesting history of the Tornado Windmill Company in New York State from its founding in 1874 attracted my attention The full article may be found at http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/articles/2009/05/04/news/5311178.txt American windmills are of course referred to in the UK as wind engines, but ours don’t look quite like Tornados!…

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Peotone windmill’s fate still twisting in the wind

The Chicago Tribune reports on the Rathje Windmill which has stood guard on the north end of Peotone in southern Will County, which now needs money spent on it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peotone_windmill_sw_zone_05feb05,0,3667001.story See also the mill’s website: http://www.peotone.com/rathjemill/index.htm

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