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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
INTRODUCTION
HOPE DALE REMINISCENCES
(From an unnamed newspaper article by G Findlay Andrew dated 14 Sep 1920)
"Leaving Brough Lane Head and travelling south-west in the direction of Bradwell about 100 or 150
yards, the traveller finds himself on Brough Bridge, a good substantial building, erected about the year
1820.
Standing on the bridge and
looking due west, there may be
seen at a distance of forty yards,
the most incongruous building in
the world; we mean Brough Corn
Mill. If buildings were to be
taken by archaeologists as
criteria of civilisation, Brough
Corn Mill would not only point to
a "remote past", but to a primitive
intellectual existence. We have
no documentary evidence at
command that would throw any
information on the origin and
history of this singular building, or
we would gladly for once, digress
from reminiscences, to deal with
its architectural ugliness and the
changes it has undergone as
generations have passed away.
It may have been built by the
Romans or Normans for what we
know, but this we may venture to
assert, that it has more claims to
architectural beauty or convenience than a load of stones.
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Amy Moore
INTRODUCTION
HOPE DALE REMINISCENCES
(From an unnamed newspaper article by G Findlay Andrew dated 14 Sep 1920)
"Leaving Brough Lane Head and travelling south-west in the direction of Bradwell about 100 or 150
yards, the traveller finds himself on Brough Bridge, a good substantial building, erected about the year
1820.
Standing on the bridge and
looking due west, there may be
seen at a distance of forty yards,
the most incongruous building in
the world; we mean Brough Corn
Mill. If buildings were to be
taken by archaeologists as
criteria of civilisation, Brough
Corn Mill would not only point to
a "remote past", but to a primitive
intellectual existence. We have
no documentary evidence at
command that would throw any
information on the origin and
history of this singular building, or
we would gladly for once, digress
from reminiscences, to deal with
its architectural ugliness and the
changes it has undergone as
generations have passed away.
It may have been built by the
Romans or Normans for what we
know, but this we may venture to
assert, that it has more claims to
architectural beauty or convenience than a load of stones.
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