Keen eyed locals may have noticed that the mill sails have been resting at an unusual angle this past week. This is because we have been paying our respects to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in the traditional way. For centuries, windmills have communicated messages to local communities by leaving the sails at rest in […]
Teething Troubles!
In this week’s update from Priors Flour HQ I’m pleased to update everyone on teeth – thankfully, not the miller’s molars, but the re-coging of the stonenut of the West millstones in the mill! The common arrangement to transfer power from wind or water to a set of horizontal millstones is by a stone-nut – […]
Price Adjustments from 1st March 2021
Now for the blog post I’ve put off writing! With the 2020 harvest wheat now in production the increased prices of grain due to the poor 2020 harvest have now rippled through the production system. With this increased cost and other costs, in particular shipping costs having increased on the 1st January 2021, I am […]
Introducing our 2020 Harvest Grain
Over the New Year, we have transitioned from our 2019 harvest milling wheat to our 2020 harvest milling wheat. As followers will know from previous blog posts, we carry out a series of controlled baking tests to assess a number of different samples of milling wheat from different farms in order to decide on the […]
New Fantail for the Windmill
Our apologies for the lack of updates from Prior’s Flour HQ! The New Year has seen lively shop and online flour sales, so thank you to everyone for your continued interest and business! At the end of 2020, we completed an important piece of planned maintenance, the replacement of the Fantail Stocks and Blades. This […]
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