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Date(s) - 19/02/18 - 7:30pm
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GONE WITH THE WIND; the lost Windmills of Leicestershire – TALK BY Mark Temple
MONDAY 19th February 2018Â WOODHOUSE EAVES VILLAGE HALL at 7.30pm
At one time every family’s diet included bread which relied on a constant supply of fresh flour. So virtually every village had a mill of some sort, a watermill if there was a suitable stream, or if not, a windmill was placed on an elevated position where its sails could catch the wind. At their peak in 1835 there were believed to be 152 mills in Leicestershire, and many were locally such as Woodhouse Eaves, Markfield, Mountsorrel, Shepshed etc. Mark has tried to gather together all the photographic images that have survived and has also made a collection of milling stories. He knows of the existence of many mills but as far as he knows their images have been lost.
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