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.
