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Saturday, 10 July 2010 14:32 |
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Ken Staddon and Phil Cave celebrate their handiwork in making the newly installed milling machine work. Ken began work at Ebley Mill in 1945 and rose to be in charge of the spinning mules. Putting belts ondrives has been part of his life for 55 years and he makes a neat job of it even in retirement. Phil began work at Stanley Mill 'only' in 1968 but he is still at work and you can't beat him for neat work welding a drive wheel back together. Here he is standing just below it. These are rare but essential skills if old machines are to continue working. Thank heavens for such generous volunteers. |
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New machines at Dunkirk and St Mary’s Mills |
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Sunday, 27 June 2010 14:51 |
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Even if you have visited Dunkirk or St Mary’s Mills several times there is something new to see there. At Dunkirk Mill Centre volunteers have installed a milling machine that was built in the 1850s and worked at Stanley Mill until the 1980s when it was filmed. Now it is driven by the waterwheel and we can explain why the fulling stocks fell silent. It shrank the cloth so effectively that it consigned the noisy fulling hammers to History. Stroud has a rich heritage of fulling mills for which it is famous. Now we can demonstrate both the noisy fulling hammers and this quiet replacement whose working principles are still in use today. |
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Breaking News ... Indian Artists in Stroud |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 11:56 |
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 The Trust has won an Arts Lottery grant, supported by another from the Summerfield Trust, to bring a family of Indian Kalamkari artists to Stroud. Smt. M. Munirathnamma and her brother and sister work in the traditions of this ancient art that led to the fashion for chintz in England in the 18th century. The core of their work is painting traditional cloths for presentation by devotees to the temple at Srikalahasti.
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