Monday 17 October 2011

We do not idly waste our time.

Mavis Gibson a volunteer at Heron Corn Mill  had heard of a photograph of 2 girls, Lily and Grace in a rowing boat on Lupton Mill sometime before WW2.
Grace and husband John have retired to  Sandside, Grace was happy to talk on film about her memories of life in the mill. Grace talked enthusiastically of hard work and happy times before and during the war of grain arriving from Liverpool docks at 3 am, rising,  unloading and starting the drying and turning of the grain. Graces memories of mill life  will be part of the archive -the photograph we have yet to track down. I asked Grace if she had any memories of songs or poems and she immediately recited this.

We do not idly waste our time
As we lifes tasks fulfill
The flowing river is not lost 
If it but turns the mill.

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