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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...

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