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Bibury, Arlington Mill c.1960
Photo ref: B530025
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More about this scene

Though the present building is mostly 17th-century, a mill has existed on this site since Domesday. Arlington Mill served the locality as both a corn and cloth mill and has most recently been a countryside museum, with an excellent display about the life and works of William Morris.

Memories of Bibury, Arlington Mill c1960

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Bibury, Arlington Mill c.1960

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My great-great-great-grandfather John Luker (1793-1853) was appenticed in 1805, for a period of 9 3/4 years, to Thomas Poole, miller at Arlington by Bibury. He became the first of four generations of millers in Painswick, Stroud and Gloucester. I first visited the mill in the 1950s with my father, when it was said to be in working condition, but had not been used other than as a warehouse for some years. ...see more