1.
The tranquil
watermill scene in the circa 1900 postcard was of
the Grade II Listed Bullington Watermill on the
River Test near Andover. Bullington was known as
Bolende in Domesday; reckoned at 15s; owned by
Alexander of Bullington in 1241, it is thought to
have been the mill rented by the College of St.
Elizabeth, Winchester, from the Abbess of nearby
Wherwell Convent during the 14th
century.
2.
Holgate Windmill near York was chosen to grace the
cover of the Roundabout Appreciation Society.
A Lincolnshire reader, P.A.Carter, kindly sent us an
article about it from The Times dated 18
October, 2012. A copy of the woodcut depicting the
mill was also enclosed. Many thanks P.A. Carter.
3.
The silk moth,
Bombix Mori, gives its name to to the textile
Bombazine.
4.
American Mr. Eli Whitney invented the cotton ‘gin’
which cleaned the seeds and husks from the
fibres, thus relieving the workers of an irritant
and irritatingly tedious chore, and at the same time
revolutionised and speeded up considerably the
cotton manufacturing process.
So how did you
fare? Could you answer them all? No Autumn
Brainteasers but there will be some questions to
test your little grey cells in the Winter issue.
