Author: Nathanael Hodge

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...

Newly catalogued: John Munnings watermill drawings

Over 60 drawings of watermills by artist John Munnings are now available in the catalogue John Munnings (1916-1987) was the...

Image identified as Partney Watermill

Thank you to Guy Boocock, James Wheeler and Leo van der Drift all of whom got in touch to let...

The lonely millwright

We recently found a copy of the “Engineers’ Pocket-Book for the year 1840”. As well as accounts and notes on...

Printing Blocks

The latest addition to our archive is a box of printing blocks used to create the images in articles by...

A Celebration of the Life of James Venn

A Service of Celebration will be held for James Venn on Wednesday 21st January 2015, 10:45 at the Milton Chapel...

A photograph on iron

One of the oldest photos in the archive is this c.1880 image of Mr Holman and his employees, printed on...

Detective work at the Archive

To work in an archive you sometimes need to be a detective. This is especially true for the tangled web...

New at the archive: John Munnings Collection

A collection of detailed watermill sketches by artist John Munnings, together with his notes and the typescript for a book,...

More collections on the Hub

Fourteen Mills Archive collections are now on the Archives Hub. These include two full catalogues, the Reid Windmills Albums and E Lancaster Burne...

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