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Newsletter 85, Summer 2009 © Hampshire Mills Group

 

Quizzical Corner

 

Here are the answers to the Spring Quiz:

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1.  The brewer’s name indicates the region.  The Adnams pub in question is The Mill Inn,  Aldeburgh, Suffolk which has two signs swinging from its walls as it is situated on the road junction on the shore road, opposite the Moot Hall.  The signs have different views of the windmill (or what we are more likely to term windpump these days). 

2.  What is a smutter?  Why, a machine that removes smuts of course! The O.E.D. has several meanings to the word smut but our use of the word relates to the fungus which sometimes adheres to grain; the smutter cleans the grain before milling.  A good example stands in the mill entrance at Bartons Mill, Old Basing.

3.  Mapledurham Mill was used in The Eagle Has Landed and Midsommer Murders (and since the question appeared, on Countryfile too.)

Summer Quiz Questions:

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1.  This waterwheel is somewhere in Hampshire, but do you know where?

2.  Dusty Millers abound in the Chattering Damsel’s cottage flower garden. Can you give the name it’s more usually known by? 

3.  What or whom does the governor superintend in a mill?

The answers will be revealed at the HMG Summer Evening Meeting Venue The Old Goods Shed at Alresford Station on June 26th and will be printed in the Autumn Newsletter.

 

THE MILLS ARCHIVE AND NATIONAL MILLS WEEKEND

 

 The Mills Archive based at Watlington House in Reading, opened to the public for the first time, on the Saturday afternoon of the National Mills Open Weekend.  Publicity had mostly been restricted to Berkshire and the venture was deemed a very successful and enjoyable event.  Representing diverse organisations such as Berkshire Family History Society, The Chiltern Society, Henley Archaeological and Historical Society, plus local  individuals; many of the visitors were researching family histories or had interests in industrial archaeology - and mills in particular. All seemed surprised, and delighted, to learn of the vital research resource and the amount of work entailed in adding it all to the Mills Archive website. Sheila Viner, one of the Archives’volunteers, was invited to put on a display for the Hampshire Mills Group which created a lot of interest - people were impressed with how active we are.  Everyone at the Mills Archive looks forward to “opening up” again, perhaps later in the year.
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