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Mills around Portsmouth Harbour
Heritage Open Day: The Mills around Portsmouth Harbour worked exceedingly fast and hard grinding corn for bread during the Napoleonic Wars, but they were at the mercy of both wind and tide.
To meet the daily need of a pound of bread per person per day, a considerable amount of flour was required. The population around Gosport in the 1800s was about 12,000. Add to this the soldiers billeted here and some 9,000 prisoners on the floating hulks and in land prisons, that was a lot of mouths to fee
Thu 7 Sep:1930 - 2030. Free Entry.
Mezzanine Floor, Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 1BT
Thu 7 Sep 2017
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