Making Global Links at Sarehole Mill

Schools Liaison and The Development Education Centre in Birmingham worked together in October to introduce Birmingham school children to the idea of sustaining food resources around the world. At Sarehole Mill, pupils from James Watt Infant School in Birmingham, followed the journey of a grain of wheat to a loaf of bread. They ground up corn and baked bread from the flour that they had made. They took pictures of their work with a digital camera and would like to show you some of them. sketch of Sarehole Mill
children in replica Victorian costume We dressed up in the sort of clothes that they would have worn at the mill in Queen Victoria's time.
We found a plough that they used to use to turn over the earth so the seeds could be planted. You can see the big blade in the middle called a coulter that cut through the earth and the mold board that turned it upside down. The plough was pulled by a team of horses but in some countries, they use oxen or even elephants

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children with a ninetenth century plough
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