Author: Nathanael Hodge

Geoff Holman Collection

Geoff Holman came from a family of millwrights, the Holmans of Canterbury, and this milling connection in his family sparked a life...

New arrival at the Archive

Last Friday the Mills Archive received the Michael Dufau collection. This important and valuable collection of over 50 boxes comprising...

Milling mystery solved

Thanks to everyone who got in touch about the mystery image we posted last week. It turns out to be...

A milling mystery

We have several copies of this image in the Archive, which appears to show someone being crushed between millstones. Does...

Goodbye Andrew

Volunteer Andrew Munro has left us after two years of hard work on the E M Gardner collection. Andrew joined...

Explore Anglesey Windmills

Windmills are an important part of the history of the island of Anglesey. Here are some of the resources on...

Hear about life at Union Mill, Cranbrook

The latest additions to the Cranbrook mill archive are two audio recordings of reminiscences about life at the mill. You...

Oldland Mill archive online

The archives of Oldland Windmill, Keymer, have now been made available online. Oldland’s archive collection has been sorted, listed and...

Union Mill, Cranbrook archive online

The archives of Union Mill in Cranbrook, Kent, collected by the late Wynn Tremenheere, are now available online. The smock...

The Decline of Wind and Water Mills

Overview There was a time when every village had its wind or watermill; when mills were everywhere – an essential...

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