Barb Drummond

Article from Bristol Evening Post

The 18th century was a time of immense upheaval in England, its gwrowing population subject to repeated famines and wars. Food rioting seems to have reached its peak in the West Country in 1766 when it was claimed that eh markets of South Gloucestershire were in the hands of the mob. But it was not purely an agricultural problem; rumours of farmers stockpiling corn and of stocks being bought up and stockpiled were common. It seemed a strange time to consider building new mills, but many had been converted to other uses, so added to the problem. The following article was my first to be published, From the Bristol Industrial Archaeology Journal of 2003. In 1800 when yet another famine hit the city, the windmill was restored by Clifton parish to grind corn for the poor of the parish.

From The Regional Historian