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She’s a jolly miller

“With flour-dust sprinkled in her greying hair and a beaming smile [she] runs, all alone, the centuries-old watermill of Thunder Bridge.” This jolly Gem is

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Women at work

Whilst the role of women in milling has often been underappreciated they have been crucial to its development. From its very origins with hand milling

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Flour power

“Some of the work in a flour mill requires a good deal of muscular strength, and in peace days such work was considered unsuitable for

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Milling for votes

The experience of a national suffrage campaigner which led to the saving of the nation’s watermills. Miss Emilie Montgomery Gardner, known to most as E.

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