ESW

We are spending a week on Gozo.

It's rather an esoteric question, I'm afraid.

I have found two references to the Xlendi Emergency Flour Mill, Gozo which sounds like the quirky sort of place we like to visit.
http://www.munxar.com/flour_mill.html
http://www.sundaycircle.com/2011/11/...side-the-past/

I found a press release from 2009 which said it would be open for one day in 2009.

Can anyone give me any information about this? If it has been restored and is open to the public - and if so what the arrangements are?

Thanks

ira

Hey ESW,

You might have submitted the most esoteric request ever.

ESW

I found an email for the local council who are restoring the mill. Work is ongoing and it won't be open when we visit.

nukesafe

Thank you for bringing this up, ESW. That has got to be the most bizarre bit of cold war history I have ever seen. Building emergency flour mills in different parts of the world to feed the local population in case of nuclear attack has got to be on the fringes of obsessive planning policy. I wonder where the British government built the seven other secret mills.

This pushed my button because I was involved in some of the U.S. nuclear attack planning. Some of the installations for civilian fallout shelters, and infrastructure/control & command facilities were quite elaborate and expensive -- but flour mills? If nuclear weapons hit Valletta you can be sure the Maltese would have a lot more to worry about than grinding wheat.

julia1

Xlendi...Munxar...many lovely memories from a long-ago week on Gozo...

Enjoy your week! Lots of good walking there.

TDudette

No help here, but Fodor's ought to send you a book.