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