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30 Years Milling

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

Funding secured from the Swire Charitable Trust for 2025 and 2026

We are pleased to have secured a grant from the Swire Charitable Trust to support the preservation of millwrighting skills. ...

The past, present and future of millwrighting

The history of a unique trade The uniqueness of millwrighting is also one of its greatest challenges. Once the preserve...

A Field Marshal, Two Rock Stars and a Cartoonist

What do these individuals have in common? They all owned or own watermills in southern and south-western counties of England....

Getting the Sack

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

A Slice of Milling History

The Millers’ Mutual Collection is one of the most important additions to our archives in recent years. As a national...

Margery Kempe: Mystic and Medieval Miller

For International Women’s Day we have reproduced below one of the biographies of women millers from our online exhibition where...

Roll out the Barrel

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

The Mill Architect

I first met architect John Reynolds when I was editing the Mills and Millers of Hampshire set of books for...

Caring for an Icon

Hardley Mill in need of repair in 1950, Karl Wood Windmill Sketches—WOOD-M1378. Repairs began on Hardley Mill in 2008. Half...

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