2. A
familiar high street firm of opticians, with
branches throughout England, has a surprising
ancestral link with silk mills. Any idea who that
can be and why he became famous?
3. In
1900 a Hampshire mill was the first to be recorded
as having been converted from a steam
roller mill to stone milling. Can you
name it and it’s location?
4. There
have been four editors so far of the HMG Newsletter;
Pam Moore was the first, can you name the other
three?
5. Can
you make the connection between Hollins Mill, Marple,
Cheshire and a book entitled “Weeping
In the Isles”?
6. Where
in Hampshire was Captain Harcourt Brown’s ‘Patent
Parchment Factory’?
The
answers will be given at the meeting in March and
printed in the summer newsletter.
N.B.
there aren’t any winter answers to print as no
questions were set - hence double the number of
questions this time! Do you know all the answers?
Have you achieved Perfection?
Here are some
mills that need identifying. Can you help? The
photographs hang, intriguingly, in the restaurant at
Sherfield on Loddon’s Longbridge Mill and yes, they
are unknown to everybody there.
Magnifying
glasses at the ready and Thinking Caps on again!
If
you are able to put a name to any of these mills
please let Mick Edgeworth and I know. Cheers,
Sheila.
