The water mill
Sir, —To preserve the flour mill is not, as Christopher Fenwick would have it, to preserve just an inefficient relic, but a memorial to the determination of the first settlers. In this May’s “National Geographic” there is a picture of the skeletal remains of a flour mill at Volgograd (once Stalingrad). It is the only shattered building remaining in a rebuilt city, and preserved by the Volga as a memorial to bravery. The mill by the Avon is not exactly grim, just ugly as seen by Mr Fenwick. That could be why any “brave new world” of Christchurch in the , future could benefit from its reminder of tough, but brave, beginnings.—Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. ( June 13, 1973.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33252, 15 June 1973, Page 8
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