Barges & Bread

Preface

Introduction

Early historic overview - setting bread into context
Growing grain for London
1. Some pre-history
2. Where wheat was grown
3. Who grew it
4. Harvesting and storage
5. Growing up in London/seeing water life on Thames/moving on to the
water
6. Recipes

Using waterways and rivers to transport grain
1. Pre-history: Making them navigable
2. Who transported it
3. What craft and their development
4. Controlling the trade
5. Bargemen and their skill
6. Watermen, lightermen and dockers
7. Imported grain from Canada/Baltic grain
8. Specifically Thames, Wey and coastal
9. Getting involved with boats and then freight transport
10. Recipes

Mills
1. Pre-history: Water mills
2. Life in a mill
3. Conflict between carriers and millers/Regulating the water use
4. Onward by water
5. Coxes mill/ Uxbridge mill/Wellingborough
6. My memories of Coxes Mill
7. Recipes


The Bread
1. Pre-history
2. From mill to table
3. Changes in its production from home to bakers to factory to home
4. Some recipes
5. My interest in how bread is used