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Survey of Finnish windmills published
The results of a survey of Finnish windmills have been made available online. You can view the survey here: http://www.sustainableheritage.eu/windmills-in-finland/. It covers 383 post mills, 53 hollow post mills and 51 smock mills – the three main types of windmill found in Finland. A glossary of Finnish mill terms is also available. Earlier studies of Finnish…
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Old and new
Remember our old website? Almost everything you could do on our old site is still available on the new – if you know where to look. If you were familiar with our old site and want to find out how to do the same things on the new one, try this. It shows the old…
Help identify our unidentified mills
We come across a lot of pictures in our collections of mills we can’t identify. You can help us by browsing the list and telling us which ones you recognise. Click here to go to the list of images of unidentified mills – currently 1072 results. As in the screenshot above, you’ll see the ‘place/mill’ filters…
A Boxing Day poem
Thought we’d share this somewhat gloomy take on Boxing Day from our archives. The poem was published in the journal ‘Milling’, 28 Dec 1895. The Winter Woods: Boxing DayBy a dyspeptic miller Image: Bateman’s Mill, Burwash, with frozen pond, April 1970. Photo by Frank Gregory Those woodlands in winter I cannot forget;How long on that…
Mystery artist identified
The artist of the mill images found in the Karl Wood collection was Captain Irvine Bately. Thanks to Adrian Allan and @rutlandned who both got in touch to suggest Irvine Bately. He illustrated several books including his brother-in-law R Thurston Hopkins’ book on Sussex, The Kipling County (1924). Captain Bately died in 1962, meaning that the images are…
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 are by another artist. The signature is hard to read, but the second image appears to have a monogram ‘IB’ in the corner. [images removed for copyright reasons] Here are the two signatures up close: If…
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 son of the miller at Mendham Mill, Suffolk. Like his famous uncle Sir Alfred Munnings he took to art and drew many sketches of watermills for a planned book. The sketches and typescript of the book…
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 us know that the mill featured in last week’s mystery postcard was in fact Partney Watermill, near Spilsby in Lincolnshire. The mill no longer exists, but you can see where it stood on this 1887 OS…