North Dakota farm girls remember the day the Cold War fell into their flax field In Menoken 71 years ago, the Pfeiffer sisters saw the sun go dark, but they never expected what happened next.

Things changed a little for the town when the Ditherington Flax Mill, the first building in the area to feature gas lighting, went up in 1797.

The Flax Mill in Ditherington will be staging a number of events to entice people in to find out more about the building, which is in the process of being restored by English Heritage. Visitors to ...

Harsco Infrastructure has provided an integrated scaffolding, shoring and temporary roofing solution for the multi-million pound project to refurbish the Ditherington Flax Mill near Shrewsbury, UK.

A £12.8m bid has been submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to help restore a historic flax mill. English Heritage said the Grade I-listed Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury, built in ...

English Heritage said the Grade I-listed Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury, built in 1797, was the world's first iron-framed building. It was later turned into a maltings for the brewery ...

The Grade I-listed mill was converted into a maltings after it closed in 1886 Work has started to demolish buildings around Shrewsbury's Ditherington Flax Mill as part of a multi-million pound ...

“The Ditherington Flax Mill Maltings partnership, of which English Heritage and Shropshire Council are members, has been working since 2005 to remove the obstacles to development of the site. This ...

Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury was built in 1797 and has received initial support in a bid to secure £12.1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Built on the northern edge of Shrewsbury, the Ditherington Flax Mill Maltings site includes many buildings of historic interest, including the internationally-important Main Mill.