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The millwright’s line
Two generations of millwrights in Norfolk - the working craftsman and the retired master who trained him.
A craft survives as long as someone teaches it. Paul Kemp is one of very few working millwrights in England; Richard Seago, now retired, is one of the men who taught him. This thread pairs their archive pages so the line between them is visible. Most of the crafts the archive documents depend on exactly this kind of handover.
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Paul Kemp, Millwright
A working millwright who has maintained and restored historic windmills across Norfolk and Suffolk for decades. The mill at Toft Monks works because Paul Kemp exists. That is not a small thing.
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Richard Seago, Retired Millwright
A retired millwright in South Walsham who built a fully working post mill from scratch on his own land, alongside two houses, multiple workshops, and barns full of restored vintage tractors, wagons, and steam engines. The first encounter that prompted the creation of the Gatherers category.
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