Author: Nathanael Hodge

Windmills of Nantucket – Rex Wailes

In 1929 Rex Wailes visited the island of Nantucket during his trip to the USA and Canada. This is his...

Priority Collections

Getting our priorities in order With 286 collections in our archive, ranging from 1 to over 200 boxes in size,...

Sketches by Thomas Hennell

This sketch, showing the machinery in an unnamed mill, is one of a number drawn by artist Thomas Hennell and...

Work experience at the Mills Archive

I’m coming to the end of my two weeks of work experience at the Mill Archive Trust, having originally applied...

Form of an Appointment of an Agent of Millers

This week’s gem from the Owen Ward Collection gives a glimpse of the role mills would have played in an...

Toy Theatre

This week’s Gem is an unusual item from the Alan Stoyel Collection. It is a set of papers with images...

1552 Indenture

It’s time for the third in our series of 21 gems of the Mills Archive. In the last two newsletters...

Mills on the Chelmer

This week’s newsletter is another extract from the writings and sketchbooks of John Munnings (1916-1987), this time on the mills...

The Threshing Sledge

Two weeks ago our newsletter featured the oldest artefact held by the Mills Archive, the rotary quern from the iron...

Hettie Jones

The last Melin Bompren Miller The county of Ceredigion, corresponding largely with that of Cardiganshire in Wales, is considered a...

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