Follow the brown signs

The mill last worked in 1914, but visitors call it a 'living' place – a place where the ancient hessian sacks mingle with the smell of the timbers and the tallow.  As a lucky survivor it tells the story of the decline of the traditional ways of work and village life.  And then there's the story of how it managed to survive – of the eccentric Ferguson's Gang's attempt to halt the urbanisation of rural England and how the Gang used the Mill to plan future missions, sitting around the millstones waiting to see the four colours of the dawn…

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