
Page 5	Newsletter 95, Winter 2011 © Hampshire Mills Group

QUIZZICAL CORNER

Here are the answers to the Autumn brainteasers..........

1. The photographs were all of Greywell Mill. Now a residential dwelling, new tenants were being sought on my most recent visit. – Ed.

2. The French term “meuniere” means “miller’s wife” as she frequently prepared fish caught in the mill leat by dusting them with flour.

3. The full quotation is: “Hair grows in the palm of an honest miller’s hand”!

And here are the autumn brainteasers..........

1. Andy Fish took this photo at The Museum of East Anglian Life. Can you guess what it is?

2. A Hampshire mill hosted the young Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip on their wedding night. Can you name that mill?

3. Which eminent eighteenth century engineer wrote a paper entitled ‘An Experimental Enquiry concerning the Natural Powers of Water and Wind to turn Mills and other Machines depending on a Circular Motion’?

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