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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Work in the fields stooking the sheaves while the reaper-and-binder continued to rattle around the diminishing square of uncut corn. High above the moth- winged buzzard-hawks would soar effortlessly in the clear air above the hills. The cars of the summer motorists were left behind on the main Taunton to Minehead Road at the Lethbridge Arms and going down from Gore Square on your right you would have seen Frank Pope the local thatcher high on his ladder laying the yellow wheat straw on the roof of the miller’s cottage. Frank with three generations of thatchers behind him knew all there was to know about his craft. The sun shone on the water of the mill stream as one continued down Mill Lane to Herbert Darby’s corn mill. The mill still worked by water power alone the mill shaft was made of hardwood and the teeth of the great cogwheels made of applewood. Applewood in contact with iron lasted for generations and had the advantage of being rust proof. At this time the mill was busy the local farmers bringing their produce to be ground between the giant stone wheels.