Month: November 2015

Grinding plate mill spindle looking for a good home

The team at White Mill in Sandwich, Kent, have come across a grinding plate mill spindle and are keen to...

‘Reading at t’ mill’: report on talk by University of Reading lecturer Dr Nicola Wilson

Last weekend, as part of ‘Being Human’ (the UK’s only festival of the humanities), Dr Nicola Wilson of the University...

Fire at t’mill – the 3500th press cutting and accompanying images from the Peter Dolman Collection

Last Friday, Talbot Green, a stalwart volunteer, reached a milestone – uploading the 3500th press cutting onto our Archive Catalogue....

Exploring the Mills Archive

The annual National Archives “Explore Your Archive” campaign from 14-22 November helps archives to promote their services and collections, and...

Inspiring future archivists: Reading Experience Fair and Careers Fair

In the recent months, the Archive has been particularly busy collaborating with the University of Reading on their Careers and...

Sign to support Brixton Windmill’s Education Programme

The Friends of Windmill Gardens (FoWG), who run Brixton Windmill, have launched an online petition to save the education project...

Many a Marvellous Miller of Movember!

Mark Movember with Millers and their moustaches! To mark Movember we’ve mined our collections to bring you our most marvellous...

Mystery artist identified

The artist of the mill images found in the Karl Wood collection was Captain Irvine Bately. Thanks to Adrian Allan...

Mystery mill artist

Can anyone help identify this artist? These two mill sketches were found with the Karl Wood collection of windmill sketches, but they...

Vincent Geoffrey Pargeter RIP

It is with great sadness that we hear that Vincent died in hospital overnight on 31 October. The mill world...

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