There were Mills at Sonning, which is near Reading in Berkshire, in 1086 when Domesday was compiled. I bet the people who built and worked in them then couldn’t have imagined that a thousand years later one of the successor buildings would be a lively theatre.
The Mill at Sonning – with its long history of flour milling for, among others, Huntley and Palmer – finally fell victim to economy of scale and fell into dereliction in 1969. Enter, in 1977, theatre-lovers Tim and Eileen Richards, and Tim’s brother Frank: a trio
