Highlights from the collection
These are just some of the drawings in the collection. View all digitised drawings.
Proposed arrangement of pentrough and sluice gates for the north wheel, Sarehole Watermill, 1965:
Arrangement of Fantail, Wilton Mill, 1973:
New waterwheel, Michelham Priory, 1972:
Method of erecting windmill sails using Tirfor machine, 1973:
This letter of 1969 is from Lady Parry. Admiral and Lady Parry were owners of Stocks Mill, Wittersham, and employed Derek to work on the mill between 1968 and 1974. Admiral Parry was one of the captains who helped sink the Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee in Rio de la Plata during World War II.
Lady Parry goes on to discuss the date of Derek’s next visit and warn him that
…the gap which was originally filled by a metal cap … and left filled by felting has been torn out – either by wind or birds and is now open and is now filled with birds nests and birds. He [Mr Jarman] thought you ought to know this in advance!!
In around 1970 Norman Stoate, miller of Cann Watermill in Shaftesbury, Dorset, commissioned Derek Ogden to build him a portugese style windmill on the roof of the watermill. Although it had the appearance of a folly, the windmill could be made to lend a hand, driving its own pair of millstones. It was demolished in 2008 when an extra storey was added to the watermill building. See all archive records on the mill.
