The Northwestern Miller is fast becoming a favourite in finding inspiration for my blogs! This week’s topic comes from one of the oldest journals we have in the collection, dating back to 1899. The article in question is that of the tragic story of a Mrs Winifred Bailey, an elderly hermit woman who lived alone…
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New grant towards “Archives and Air Hangars project”
We are delighted to announce that we have been granted £30,000 by the Millers’ Mutual Association, to transform how we care for our precious milling records. Faced with a funding gap to complete the project, the MMA have kindly stepped in and have agreed to fund the project over 3 years. This project, also partly…
The Great British (and American) Bake Off!
In today’s day and age, if you turned on the television, it would not take you long to find one of the plethora of cooking or baking shows that are available. Whilst the dishes created on these shows can cause us to salivate, or turn our nose up in disgust, we often forget the first…
What do an artist, a queen and a launderer have in common?
You may have heard of City Mill in Winchester, but did you know it is connected to world famous artist JMW Turner? Or do you know how it is related to Queen Mary I? And why did it have a brief spell as a laundry room? Read on to find out… This remarkable building possesses…
Bowled over by our latest finds!
With the Premier League having just started, England’s women progressing to the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup and the cricketers embarking on the unknown of the day-night test, there is no shortage of sport around at the moment. However, what has surprised me is just how many references to sport I am coming across…
How millers fared in Soviet Russia
In this week’s blog I’d like to tell you about an article from the Northwestern Miller on the Soviet Union’s milling industry. In the 1927 March/April edition, a piece by R.J. Goldberg was published on how Russian millers and their industry were coping in the tumultuous conditions of the 1920s. By this point, the highly…
The mill with a confused identity
Taking a leaf out of Lydia’s book, I too have been looking through the John Munnings Collection again this week! This collection is of interest to me and my project given the number of small, country mills that he drew which are described as having installed roller machinery. Most of these mills only installed small…
The Flying Highwayman
A search through part of the John Munnings Collection (one of my favourites!) revealed the tale of a miller’s son who became the famous Flying Highwayman. Of course, the story of a man born into a milling family and in the business of robbing travellers is one I couldn’t resist retelling! Interested to discover the…
WWI’s personal effects on 2 roller mill dynasties
103 years ago today, Britain declared war on Germany after the ultimatum to withdraw from Belgium expired. The lives of those in Britain would alter over the course of the next four years and those involved in the roller milling world were no exception. Imagine what that day would have been like to a widow,…
The mill that was once a warship
As I was starting this week’s blog entry I was reminded of all the drawings in the John Munnings’ Collection that I looked through when I first started my internship. One in particular caught my eye because of the mill’s connection to a single ship battle between the Americans and British, which apparently was won…