The milling machinery he designed, redesigned and redesigned again never worked as he expected.
I was sent to work in a factory in Canada making cotton-mill machinery, and I did very well there.
DON LEWIS, the owner of Wild Hive Farm, rolled open a door to reveal his milling machinery and shoved a somewhat aggressive goat named Annabelle aside.
But the Guardian visited the mill days after the war last year and on the first floor of the building saw what appeared to be the remains of an aircraft-dropped bomb in the burnt-out milling machinery.
At the Roundhouse Railroad Museum (601 West Harris Street, 912-651-6823; www.chsgeorgia.org; $4.25, $3.75 for students, under 6 free), there are passenger cars and old locomotives and a fascinating display of steam-powered and belt-driven milling machinery.
As we follow the path of the river, which seems to become a canal, the remains of old mill machinery scar the opposite bank, remnants of the late Victorian age when the Lea was a thriving industrial waterway.
But it's the award-winning bookshop that's at the heart of things and claims a sprawling space across shelves made of reclaimed timber and on old bits of mill machinery.
In the Alpine region of Savoie, Arpin, an old-established family company that makes luxury woolen fabrics for fashion houses like Hermès, Ralph Lauren and Christian Lacroix, still uses a microhydro turbine that was installed to power the mill machinery way back in 1910.
"My dad was an engineer in the paper mill machinery business, and he'd get these auction fliers for machine shops or paper mills that were being liquidated," recalled Mr. Stafford, who still lives in Watertown and now runs the company.
Marie, her brother and two sisters are free to play – to float dolls, walk on stilts through the stream, push favourite cats about in the doll's pram and wheelbarrow, build fires and pick bunches of lady's smock, all within earshot of the bustle of work, the rumble and clack of milling machinery.
