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Text Box: Newsletter 85, Summer 2009 © Hampshire Mills Group
Text Box: Page 5
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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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