A new year, a time for new beginnings, making a change or a new resolution. Yet it can also be a time for a reflection and pondering on the past. As such, this week’s blog will be reflecting upon the past – 1928 to be specific – and what individuals then, particularly millers, would have…
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New Year, New Collections
We’d like to say a big thank you to those who have adopted a collection in 2017. The New Year feels like the right time to look back at the difference that our supporters have made in looking after the Archive. We are also excited to announce that new collections have been added to the…
A Christmas blog
With Christmas a mere few days away, it feels an appropriate time to spread some festive cheer. Helping me to accomplish this are the numerous Christmas editions of American journal, The Northwestern Miller, held here at the Archive. Through their festive adverts, stories, and poems, this blog will endeavour to display Christmas past, present and…
Office hours over the festive period
The office is closed from 22nd December to 2nd January. We will respond to any enquiries sent in over Christmas after that time. Thank you for your patience. We appreciate the support you have all given us over the past year and we look forward to seeing you or hearing from you in 2018! Merry…
Celebrating with the Hampshire Mills Group
On Friday the Hampshire Mills Group paid us a visit. The Group has helped the Archive in a number of ways over the years and so it is was decided that we would have a well-deserved celebration with some of their members. Two events were being celebrated in particular: the donation of the Arthur Lowe…
Transport, feed and pets
Animals have gone hand in hand with milling for centuries from when millstones would be turned by mules, donkeys, horses or other animals. Although wind and water power became more commonly used, and the invention of roller machinery ruled out the use of animal power, this did not mean that animals and horses became an…
NEW: modern milling webpages – let us know what you think!
We are pleased to announce that the new modern milling webpages are now live on the Mills Archive website and available for public viewing. These pages are a part of the Mills Archive project to create the world’s first roller flour mill archive and library. This project has been funded by a grant from the…
Crimes of milling part 2
As promised, this week’s blog will return to the theme of crimes in the milling world. This week’s crimes, however, took place after roller milling was introduced and have come from the pages of different Milling Journals from around the world that reported the crimes. Case Number One is the tale of a Canadian flour dealer…
Can you help the new National Millwrighting Centre?
The newly-formed National Millwrighting Centre is raising funds to support their ambitious project to train new millwrights to look after the nation’s mills. The National Millwrighting Centre will ensure the survival of the nation’s wind and watermills. There is only a handful of expert millwrights left to maintain over 1000 mills. The Centre will establish…
Crimes of milling
This week’s blog covers three exciting cases of espionage or crimes linked in some way to the world of milling. These tales have been taken from two publications from our library, one of which has only just arrived at the Archive… Case Number One is a tale of industrial espionage. Our protagonists: Carl Friedrich Ganzel and…