FEBRUARY 2009
Tuesday
17th
Tony Yoward and I went
to Titchfield History
Society to talk to them on the
subject of “Industrial
Archaeology’’.
Well received, with many
questions.
Saturday
28th
Milling day at
Longbridge. milled extra flour.
Instead of the usual 5 sacks we actually
milled 7.
A
good day with plenty of water
coming down the river.
MARCH 2009
Sunday
1st I attended
a Trustees meeting at Crux Easton.
Tuesday
3rd
Tony represented HMG at the
Conference on Chalk Streams held
at R.N.L.I.
at Poole. I know he
was very disappointed not to hear anything about mills at all.
We seem to be a forgotten army!!
Friday 6th
I had the pleasure of a lunch
and far-reaching discussions with Sheila (Viner) and
John (Mears)
at Longbridge Mill; many subjects were discussed on a very full agenda.
Saturday 7th
To
S.P.A.B. Spring Meeting at the Artworkers Guild in an Art Deco building;
a special exhibition of mills paintings, exhibited by S.P.A.B. members from
their own collections, added an interesting diversion
Monday 9th
Very positive meeting with Eastleigh
Borough
Engineers
Department,
accompanied by Mick Edgeworth and John Christmas. We
felt that the Borough
Council were
looking in the right direction and that they were also getting through to the
Environment Agency.
Saturday 14th
I was very disappointed to find
the C.O.G.S. meeting had been cancelled, apparently
due to lack of interest by many
other mills groups.
However, that allowed me to
attend the HMG Spring meeting
Saturday 28th
Milling day at Longbridge Mill.
Usual milling gang was present and working well, I say the usual crew but
we badly need others to come and learn how to mill!!!
It doesn’t cost you anything except time and is very satisfying so -
please, can we have some
more volunteers to swell the team?
APRIL
2009
Tuesday
7th
Another talk, this time to Chandlers
Ford “Happy Bunch” (of pensioners) who kindly gave me a donation to our funds.
Tuesday
14th
Final visit to Bindon Mill to see if
we could take any of the machinery taken out of the mill during it’s conversion
to accommodation. It looks as if the
shafts and pulleys are all we can take.
John Christmas is negotiating
on our behalf. On the way back we
called at Broughton only to find the barn again occupied by a nesting pair of
Barn Owls. As these must not be
disturbed we shall have to wait until the chicks have fledged before we can
return.
Friday
17th
Spoke to the inaugural
meeting of Wherwell History Society, on the History of Milling.
This was well received and a very generous cheque was donated for group
funds. They were also kind enough to
give me a number of slides of their two local mills (Wherwell and Fullerton);
they also gave me two slides of the “Roman” mill sites as drawn up by the
archaeologists researching the two Roman mill sites above Fullerton.
Tuesday 21st
Last week I received a telephone call
from Mrs. Trussler of Winchester who had traced my number in order to offer me a
complete album of photographs, drawings and press cuttings of the conversion of
Chalton Windmill to accommodation, as a permanent record of the mill.
Mr Trussler, a very talented architect, had drawn up the plans and
supervised the work needed . She
even gave me the central bolt from the original sails.
I thanked her very much on behalf of us all, and will pass the album on
to our archivist.
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Editor's
Note: SERIAC
is the South
East Region Industrial Archaeology Conference; an annual event, this year it was
hosted by HIAS - Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society.
HMG developed out of HIAS and several members belong to both bodies.
SPAB is the Society
for the Protection of
Ancient Buildings; COGS is the
committee set to facilitate improved communication between all the
mills groups, for sharing of common problems and possible resolutions.
