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Broad Eye Windmill - Quiz
  • 1. In which county is the Broad Eye Windmill located?
A) Staffordshire
B) Shropshire
C) Cheshire
D) Derbyshire
  • 2. Who is the current patron of the Broad Eye Windmill?
A) Tony Robinson
B) David Attenborough
C) Michael Portillo
D) Alan Titchmarsh
  • 3. In what year were the sails removed from the Broad Eye Windmill?
A) 1931
B) 1897
C) 1951
D) 1837
  • 4. When did construction start on the Broad Eye Windmill?
A) 1835
B) 1796
C) 1800
D) 1772
  • 5. What type of business operated out of the windmill between the 1920s and 1931?
A) A butcher’s shop
B) A bakery
C) A bookstore
D) A post office
  • 6. What kind of stone was used to build the Broad Eye Windmill?
A) Granite from the Midlands
B) Limestone from the River Sow
C) Sandstone from the canal banks
D) Stone from the early Shire Hall
  • 7. What was the original height of the Broad Eye Windmill?
A) Sixty three feet
B) Forty five feet
C) Seventy feet
D) Fifty feet
  • 8. In what year was the Broad Eye Windmill declared a Grade II listed building?
A) 1931
B) 1997
C) 1966
D) 1951
  • 9. Which organization currently looks after the Broad Eye Windmill?
A) Friends of Broad Eye Windmill
B) The National Trust
C) Stafford Historical Society
D) The Windmill Preservation Trust
  • 10. What company is currently based at the Broad Eye Windmill?
A) Stafford Radio
B) Midlands Milling Co.
C) Stafford Heritage Media
D) Windmill Broadcasting
  • 11. How many floors did the windmill originally have?
A) Five
B) Four
C) Seven
D) Ten
  • 12. What was added to the lower floors of the mill in 1835?
A) An electric generator
B) A grain conveyor
C) A secondary storage silo
D) A steam engine
  • 13. Which river is the Broad Eye Windmill located next to?
A) River Sow
B) River Severn
C) River Avon
D) River Trent
  • 14. What major infrastructure project arrived in Stafford in 1837?
A) The main electric grid
B) The motorway
C) The new town bridge
D) The mainline railway
  • 15. How many floors were originally used for flour production?
A) Two
B) One
C) Four
D) Seven
  • 16. What kind of troops used the mill as a store place during wartime?
A) British troops
B) French troops
C) American troops
D) Canadian troops
  • 17. In what year did the local community radio station start broadcasting from the mill?
A) 1999
B) 2016
C) 2000
D) 2010
  • 18. Why could the mill not compete with flour from the railway?
A) The mill could not produce fine white flour
B) The wind was unreliable
C) The mill was too small
D) The mill was too far from the station
  • 19. Which canal was built at Radford Bank in 1772?
A) Shropshire Union Canal
B) Birmingham Canal
C) Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
D) Trent and Mersey Canal
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