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unusual facts about The Mill


Sacha Parkinson

In 2013 Sacha Parkinson appeared in Channel 4, four part drama The Mill portraying the role of Miriam Catterall The Mill.


Bark mill

The mill was originally a bark mill, but was advertised for sale in 1818 as “new built”, easily convertible to corn grinding.

James Hawes

Hawes directed The Mill, a mini series for Channel Four TV about the people and politics of Quarry Bank Mill, an 19th-century cotton mill.


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Alte Schwentine

It rises near Bornhöved on the hill of Grimmelsberg by the road from Bornhöved to Tarbek in a meadow and in the mill pond of Bornhöved.

Attilly

Villeveque in the west with the villa of the Prince of Monaco, ponds for fishing, and the mill (where it is possible to learn to swim)

Ben Hollioake

Ben Hollioake died on 23 March 2002 in Perth, Australia near his childhood school Wesley College, Perth, when he crashed his Porsche 924 convertible into a wall on the Mill Point Road exit of the Kwinana Freeway on his way home from a family celebration.

Black Mill, Whitstable

The mill last worked circa 1905 and in 1928 was converted into a studio by the artist Laurence Irving, the grandson of Sir Henry Irving.

Brunswick Mill, Ancoats

The mill is of fireproof construction and was built by David Bellhouse, but it is suspected that William Fairbairn was involved in the design.

Burton Latimer

The mill was acquired in the 1930s and became the home of Weetabix.

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Led by Captain Sherod Hunter, the raid destroyed the mill machinery, captured Ammi White and returned the flour and other food to the Pima.

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons

Born December 30, 1858 in the mill town of Kingfield, Maine, the young Chansonetta Stanley grew interested in photography after her brothers' (Francis E. and Freelan O. Stanley) dry-plate printing invention.

Climax Uranium Mill

The mill soon grew to be 12 buildings large and processed 2 million tons of ore, mostly for the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Drinkstone windmills

Drinkstone post mill was featured in the Dad's Army episode "Don't Forget the Diver" in which Lance Corporal Jones went round on the sails of the mill and was thrown off into a pond.

Duddington

The mill featured in the wartime series of paintings Recording Britain, painted by S.R. Badmin in 1940.

Ebenezer Mill

The mill sits on the banks of Ten Mile Creek (originally Sinking Creek) on the site of what was once the "Mansion Mill," a smaller gristmill built circa 1835 for the McClung estate.

Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

Stretches of the Mill Hill East to Edgware line are now Local Nature Reserves, Copthall Railway Walk and Mill Hill Old Railway Nature Reserve.

Gaylord Container Corporation

The mill and adjacent converting complex was opened in 1956 by Crown Zellerbach to use pulp from British Columbia to make tissue, toweling, multiwall bags, and linerboard for the northern California market.

Hooks Mills, West Virginia

By the late 19th and early 20th century Hooks Mills was an established community, with an inn serving the patrons of the mill, a blacksmith shed and house, the mill residence, and the Captain David Pugh House.

Joanna Read

More recently, she has worked as a freelance director and writer for Edinburgh Festival Theatre, the Young Vic London, the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle Under Lyme, The Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse, The Mill at Sonning and the Watford Palace Theatre, amongst others.

Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania

In 1990, Penntech sold the mill to Willamette Industries, the company that would later be acquired by Weyerhaeuser in February 2002 in a hostile takeover and then in 2007 was acquired by Domtar.

Kash Aap Hamare Hote

Critics say, "The film starts off good but as the drama goes on, the story starts loosening its grip. Juhi Babbar's debut should have been a thriller." Taran Adarsh rated it only one and a half stars out of five and said it is "a run-of-the-mill flick".

Manlius Township, Michigan

It was for a while a station on the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, but was mostly abandoned in 1874 after the destruction of the mill's dam and the local tavern burned down.

Mansfield Roller Mill

Owners Jack & Shirley Dalton and Frank & Sharon Hutcheson donated the mill to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Museums and Historic Sites in 1995.

March Rapids, Wisconsin

In late 1892 Thomas March sold the mill to Doud & Sons, a barrel-making enterprise with factories in Winona, Rudolph and Pittsville.

Marina Rikhvanova

The mill dumped thousands of tons of pollutants into the lake, including dioxin, which has appeared in Baikal fish and the fat of Baikal seals.

McCafferty

Mrs. McCaffery sent him to England to stay with a friend, Mrs. Murphy of Mossley near Manchester, where, at the age of 12, he started work in the mill.

Mill Mountain Incline

The Mill Mountain Incline was a 0.37 mi (0.60 km) funicular, or inclined plane, located on Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia that operated between 1910-1929.

Mill of Muchalls

The earliest position of the village of Muchalls lay slightly to the south of the Mill of Muchalls.

The Mill of Muchalls is an historic water powered mill located along the Burn of Muchalls in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Mill Woods

The Mill Woods Presidents' Council, community leagues throughout Mill Woods, and various corporate sponsors provide Canada Day celebrations in Mill Woods Park on July 1 of each year.

Mons Mill, Todmorden

He sold it to the newly formed Mons Mill Company Limited and the mill was renamed Mons Mill (after the Battle of Mons).

Mortimer Grimshaw

The son of a radical public speaker and orator, Grimshaw's early campaigns were centred around the improvement of working conditions for the mill-workers in the village of Royton and enforcement of the Factory Acts.

Moyola Park F.C.

The club, founded in 1880, hails from Castledawson, near Magherafelt, County Londonderry, and plays its home matches at the Mill Meadow, which has an artificial "3G" surface.

New Brunswick Route 1

However, the city, along with the provincial and federal governments, decided to bargain with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to purchase the majority of the Mill Street Yard near the neo-gothic Union Station for a highway alignment which would run through the middle of the city (somewhat like the infamous Interstate 93 alignment which was built through Boston).

Nipigon

Less than a month earlier workers at the mill had purchased it from Columbia Forest Products of Portland, Oregon.

Outwood Windmill

The smock mill was run by the Budgen family until 1885 when Edward Scott, of Woolpits Mill, Nutfield bought the lease of the mill for £1,225.

Pear New Mill

The mill had 137,312 mule spindles which remained until the 1950s when they were replaced by 33,636 ring spindles, the mill being electrified at the same time.

Quarry Bank Mill

Today the mill houses the most powerful working waterwheel in Europe, an iron wheel moved from Glasshouses Mill at Pateley Bridge designed by Sir William Fairbairn who had been Hewes' apprentice.

Rayonier

The mill used Tsuga heterophylla (western hemlock) trees to create a premium bleached paper pulp.

Robin Hood Flour

Eventually the company became International Multifoods Corp The Moose Jaw mill eventually closed in 1966 due to over capacity; the mill was torn down but the grain bins and elevator are still in use as an inland terminal.

Rolvenden

The mill, which is privately owned and does not open to the public, stands on a little hill and was featured in the Tommy Steele film "Half a Sixpence".

Rowley, Massachusetts

In 1642, a keystone arch bridge and a dam were built on the Mill River for the fulling mill, the first such in the colonies.

Sarah Tullamore

In 2009 the English version of the show premiered at the Mill Studio, Guildford, UK with additional performances in November 2009 at the Playhouse in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Second Movement Opera

In February 2011, The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti, a Second Movement production first staged in 2006, was performed in a tour of Northern Ireland by NI Opera in association with Second Movement, with performances in the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh; The Great Hall, Downpatrick; Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey and The Market Place Theatre, Armagh.

Sibsey Trader Mill

The mill features in the CBeebies series Baby Jake where location filming for the series took place in the late summer of 2010.

St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company

The St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company is one of the "central backdrops" to the plot of Pocahontas County author W. E. Blackhurst book, "Riders of the Flood." Every September the town of Ronceverte holds an outdoor drama of Riders of the Flood just belowstream the location of the mill company.

Stanley, Perthshire

The Dempster & Co company was established in 1787 by seven men including Richard Arkwright, George Dempster and William Sandeman to build the mill on land feued from the Duke of Atholl to provide employment to Highlanders affected by the clearances.

Sutter's Mill

The mill was also the namesake and inspiration for a song by singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg.

T. R. Pugh Memorial Park

The architect for the park and the mill was Frank Carmean with artist Dionicio Rodriguez serving as sculptor of the concrete work to simulate wooden, iron and steel structures.

The Mill and the Cross

The Mill and the Cross is a 2011 drama film directed by Lech Majewski and starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York.

Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie

James Boswell borrowed five guineas from Erskine on 20 October 1762, and on 26 May 1763 took him on a visit to Lord Eglinton's in London, where the overture the Earl composed for the popular pastiche The Maid of the Mill (at Covent Garden in 1765) became exceptionally popular.