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This sketch was drawn by the eccentric and enigmatic Karl Wood, only two years before he was sent to prison. This sketch is from the Karl Wood Collection: it forms part of a project which he called Mühlendämmerungs, or Twilight of the Mills. It was a series of attractive ink sketches capturing the twilight era of Britain’s mills, from…
This photo is an important reminder that without a range of extraordinary enthusiasts these collections would not exist. This Gem is a black and white glass plate negative, from a series taken by David H Jones, a specialist in watermills. During his research, David came across an account written by a soldier stationed on the Faroe…
The experience of a national suffrage campaigner which led to the saving of the nation’s watermills. Miss Emilie Montgomery Gardner, known to most as E. M. Gardner, was an avid watermill enthusiast. It was through her diligent campaigning that in 1946, the SPAB agreed to expand their windmills section to include watermills. The SPAB were…
