“Jordans Mill Museum” (Biggleswade)

Quick glance: Jordans Mill Museum, Biggleswade

This is a working mill and a thirty-minute walk from Biggleswade. In case you wonder – this is where you’ll find the Jordans Original Crunchy.

1. The mill was bought as “Holmes Mill” by the Jordans in 1893. A fire broke out a year later but this gave them the chance to upgrade everything to its latest technology.

2. This included an upgrade from millstones into metal rollers. Very efficient. Ka-ching!

Let's explore: Jordans Mill Museum

3. You need to start from the top floor. And there you’ll face the greatest challenge of the whole experience, one that involves persistence and sweat:

You’re to wave at an infrared sensor until it feels satisfied enough to play you an introductory video. 

4. Find yourself waving again and again moving forward and backward and forward. Now repeat. Sooner or later, you’d want to give up the whole thing. But you’ll realize it’s worth the effort the moment it starts to play. 

5. The video teaches you a little too much on how the Jordans were to acquire and improve the flour mill over all these years. It’s still working now by the way. At other times, CG videos walk you through the entire grinding process.

6. Hand-written display boards. Vintage, touching, and you get to know all sorts of trivias from the Jordans. A feeling of family business after all.

(Learn something from the kids-friendly displays: the corn can be divided into three parts – endosperm, bran and germ. It is the endosperm that gives us flour.)

And yes there are mills in London! Go go go: House Mill, Wimbledon Windmill Museum. And here's one in Nottingham: Green's Windmill Science Centre.

When you feel like an outing, come join my 25-min museum tour. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day, or finish off the day with a secret prize.

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