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A special visit from the National Archives of Indonesia!

We were delighted to host a visit from the National Archives of Indonesia yesterday. The reason? They are starting to...

New webpage teaser (and Fred the Flour Grader)

So I have come to the end of my initial three months interning at the Mills Archive. However, this is...

The surprising uses for flour sacks!

This week, I have been doing research on the final stages of the milling process, what happens to the flour...

Rare glimpse of Upminster Windmill suspended in the air

Upminster Windmill’s restoration project is certainly well under way, as these latest photos show! Millwright Willem Dijkstra has started to...

A welcome visit from the London & South East Milling Society

This week has seen some different events take place in the Archive so I thought I’d provide a round-up of...

Thomas Hardy and the World of Milling

‘Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change’. This quotation from Thomas Hardy could aptly...

My final blog!

This is my final day at the Archive! It feels like yesterday that I was writing my first ever blog...

William Cornwell and Sun Flour Mills

One of the categories that will be in the new roller milling webpages will be ‘Stories from the Archive’. Within...

WWII windmill cartoon mystery

A few weeks ago Ron gave me a fascinating World War 2 propaganda cartoon to look at. It features Mussolini...

The mill cartoonist

Don Paterson was a prominent figure in the mill world, a widely respected man with a talent for wit and...

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