Year: 2020

£75,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation for “Hidden Heroes” project

I am delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £75,000 by the Garfield Weston Foundation. This...

Eva Ekeblad (1724-1786)

Countess Eva Ekeblad née Eva De La Gardie (10/07/1724 – 15/05/1786) was born into the Swedish aristocracy, and was a...

Oliver Evans (1755–1819)

Evans (September 13, 1755 – April 15, 1819) was an American inventor, engineer and businessman. In the early 1780s Evans’s...

James Venn (1921- 2014)

James Herbert Venn was born on 30th December 1921 at Furze Platt in Maidenhead.  He developed an interest in mills...

Helen Major (1927–2013)

Helen Major (1927 – 2013) was an amateur historian and an active volunteer at the Mills Archive. Helen was well...

Tabitha Babbitt (1779-1853)

Sarah Tabitha Babbitt (12 August 1779-10 December1853) is believed to have invented the first circular saw for use in a...

Saint Anthony’s Fire and Brimstone: Daily Bread or Daily Dread?

Everybody knows about the dangers of eating wild plants, and even experienced nature-lovers have to be careful when picking woodland...

Mills make the world go round

By Mildred Cookson and Nathanael Hodge Mills are most well known for grinding corn into flour. However, over the centuries...

Why I chose the Mills Archive Trust to start my voluntary work

One of our volunteers, Noor, has written about her experience at the Mills Archive: I am sure everyone has their...

The Devil’s Mill

The issue of The Miller dated 5 May 1930 contains this story about the ‘Devil’s Mill’ A miller’s apprentice loved...

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