Author: Nathanael Hodge

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...

Mills Archive on the Archives Hub

The first Mills Archive collection can now be viewed on the Archives Hub. The Archives Hub is a website where archive repositories...

Harry Meyer (1900-1982)

Harry Meyer was a mill enthusiast who from the 1920s to the 1940s carried out cycle trips taking photographs of...

Rex Wailes (1901-1986)

Rex Wailes was born on 6 March 1901 in Hadley Wood, Middlesex, the elder son of Reginald and Florence Wailes....

E Lancaster Burne (1869-1946)

As the inventor of a windmill system, E. Lancaster Burne has a place in the development of the windmill. Edward...

Stanley Freese (1902-1972)

Stanley Harman Freese was born in 1902. He first became interested in mills when on holiday at Darsham, Suffolk in...

H E S Simmons (1901-1973)

Herbert Edward Sydney Simmons, known to his friends as Syd, was born at Washington, Sussex in 1901. As a young...

Hallam Ashley (1900-1987)

Hallam Ashley was born on 9 July 1900, and spent his early years in Nottinghamshire. His father and grandfather were...

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