From office boy to Miller, Keith's journey as a worker
in a 20th century flour mill, R. J. Reads,
in King Street, gives us an insight as to how
the flour that made our bread, cakes and
biscuits etc. was made.
It also shows how the milling process got more sophisticated through industrialisation
and better machinery.
The old watermills, tide mills, tower mills and windmills that were once scattered all over Norfolk
are all but gone.
Even Reads Mill has disappeared and the building has now been turned into residential flats.

 Other well known companies have disappeared
over the years from the heart of the
City of Norwich. Engineers, Shoemakers and Timber Merchants, but life goes on and change must come.
With Keith’s recollections, we have a record
of that time and that is important.
I am sure you the reader will be able to
associate to some of Keith’s memories.
He became the Manager of the Mustard Mill for
another well-known company,
Colmans in 1985 and he retired in 1998.

Peter Sneddon. 2007.