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Milling journals of the past. The flour mills of East Scotland: Part 1

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    Cookson, Mildred M [Author]

    Publisher Milling & Grain
    Year of publication 2019 June
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    Medium Digital
    Edition1
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    Cereal processes > Flour milling > Commercial millers

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    Scope & contentIn the days before civil aviation and high-speed railways, professional conventions held a particular place in the calendar. Bringing together the movers and shakers of the industry (the people as well as the machines) they provided opportunities and ideas for progress and re-affirmed their status as heads of industry, commerce and innovation. One such was the 1902 Convention to be held in Edinburgh.

    Conventions also provided an opportunity for national and global advertising and so Milling, the precursor of Milling and Grain, announced that its edition of May 31st, 1902 would be a Convention Number in accordance with their regular custom. Less than a decade old, the publication was determined to set itself apart in both content and production values.

    It promised a Number containing “specially written articles by the best literary talent in the trade on subjects of interest to all the many British and colonial readers … other pages will be replete with illustrations of several important Scotch mills, together with others in different parts of the Empire.”…Read more.

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