We wrote a few days ago our friend and collaborator Isabel Riesco , giving us the bad news of the demolition that was running on some of the buildings that shaped the Vidriales Santibáñez flour mill, an industrial complex built in 1929 by the f amily Wheeler Delgado and called "The Vidrialesa" . The main image accompanying this post is precisely what Isabel Riesco was hanging in his very complete blog. We recommend you read the entry dedicated to this demolition, which includes memories and experiences of people who came to the flour during the period of industrial activity:
Http://elblogdeayoo.blogspot.com/2011/04/memoria-de-santibanez-la-industria-02.html
We also take to climb the magnificent Casquero MA words written in La Opinión de Zamora about this flour mill, also report that accompanies a photograph of workers in the industry: 
"The fall White Giant " MA CASQUERO
"If my grandfather could head." The term, spontaneous, yesterday sprang from the lips of a neighbor to see how the store was torn down the old flour mill in Vidriales Santibanez. The owner opted for the demolition of the old facilities that housed the huge piles of sacks of flour, 100 kg, after the end of the year the occurrence of the collapse of one wall of this great ship of which were supplied load first cars and wagons and later trucks and tractors. However, the frantic building that manufacturing activity was still standing with their "Hoop Earrings" chimneys where the dust came outside the mills, indicating the wind direction without hesitation because of the willingness of its bearings. was 20 years ago when industrial activity ceased in the factory built in 1929 by the Delgado family Wheels of Santibanez and level, in the then flourishing town vidrialesa. His contribution to the local economy began to mark a milestone in Santibáñez Vidriales. The flour mill "The Vidrialesa" once numbered more than a dozen employees. The quality of flour produced in this factory began to gain fame not only in the province but even in the region to over the years. Carts pulled by six mules headed for the nearby city of La Bañeza carrying their heavy load of bags of flour of 100 kilos. The climb up the winding mountain road and raised the "Real" in Fuente Encalada was done by Felipe "El Carrero." Felipe Casquero, egged on the horses with his whip causing restralle sound reached the ears of the inhabitants of Fuente Encalada. Particularly in the warehouse now died down Felipe "El Carrero" to fall on his body a lot of bags of flour that he and his companions managed to stack.
were years of economic power in Santibanez where even the birds turned into homes due to high demand of people coming to the village vidrialesa. Precisely in this village had electricity come from La Milla de Tera did many years earlier. During the early years of the factory, the power base was produced from gas, biomass currently in vogue. Those early years coincided with the building of the Town Hall (1927) where now stands the little town hall square, as sources of the square of Barrero, later de Arriba, José Antonio, and now Rosalia de Castro, also in that year, four years earlier, in 1923, the arch grounds.
Already in the 40's, the neighbors saw how at eleven o'clock at night it turned red filament bulbs of the few houses because from that time is beginning the milling "The Vidrialesa." It was after those hours when the laying of Electrical Alija Leonesas from the Infantry, then the melons, which had replaced from Mile, allowed the feverish industrial activity in the flour factory. The nights were conducive to this end, since at that time people went to bed earlier and there was no television. "The Vidrialesa" he said at that time to expand facilities by enlarging the store to the little shop of Mrs. Marcelina. So bear with the newly constructed railroad cars and more cars came to collect the prized white flour and bran, the product that comes from refining the grain of wheat and served to feed the animals, as well as the middlings or sharps to hens and meal were fed with not a few children in the region. Factory activity of "The Vidrialesa" was in line with the strength of the villa. The four renowned fairs and markets in every Wednesday year. The first, on March 19, May 5, June 7 and September 4. The markets' top half year, with transactions of cows and pigs, and the other half down "as outlined the chronicles of the time. The great business of the town with numerous shops of all kinds caused the company bañezana "Martinez" establish a bus service from La Bañeza to Santibáñez to go specifically to the markets Wednesday. Since then, Santibanez had daily car and Zamora's Bañeza, although the latter except Monday and Thursday, and who came to the markets of El Puente de Sanabria and Benavente.
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