This disturbing news has been doing the rounds Below the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland outlines the threat to post 1700 archaeology and heritage if their statutory protection is removed. Mills are obviously going to lose their protection so we should react and let the Irish Government know this is of international concern. Thanks to…
Author: Ron Cookson
Research Prize: Only 3 months to go
The deadline to choose and submit your title for the first Mills Archive Research Competition is 1 December this year – but you don’t need to wait! There are two competitions this year: one for £500 and one for £50 (details below). As part of its brief “to promote encourage or undertake research and disseminate…
Important New Book from Hampshire Mills Group
Anyone who knows of Tony and Mary Yoward’s detailed research on the mills and millers of Hampshire, will be delighted by the appearance of this book, published this month and edited by Ashok Vaidya. Tony and Ashok between them have created a valuable reference source for mills and family historians. All proceeds go to the…
SPAB November Meeting on Mill Memories
The next “autumn” meeting of the SPAB Mills Section is being held on Saturday 26 November outside London to reduce the cost. The venue is the Mills Archive in Reading and the theme (appropriately) is Mill Memories The theme of the day is Mill Memories. The title was selected as it may mean different things to…
Mill Memories is on its way!
Mill Memories is packed with interesting articles and has now gone to printers. Issue 8 focuses on the work of some of our regular volunteers: David Neaves on Mills in Art, Talbot Green on the 1930s/1940s photographs of HES ‘Sid’ Simmons, and Chris Wheeler on the Peter Dolman Collection and his research into the millwrights…
National Mills Weekend 2011
National Mills Weekend is a celebration of the UK’s milling heritage held on the second weekend of May each year. The weekend is organised by the Mills Section of the SPAB. As many wind and water mills as are able open on one or both of the two days of the weekend. More details are…
Mystery watermill
This image is a detail from a painting entitled ‘Fishing near the Mill, Sussex’ painted by Glendening in 1896. Can anyone identify the location and even confirm the mill was located in Sussex? Despite the title of the work it may prove to be a flour mill not in Sussex at all but elsewhere in…
Martin Watts excavates Somerset watermill with the Time Team
A second Time Team episode featuring a watermill excavation will air this Sunday, 10th April, at 5.30pm on Channel 4. “Come and have a look at this, Tony!” Under the guidance of Devon millwright and mill author Martin Watts, the team investigate the site of a lost watermill with local and regional connections. The programme’s…
Argos Hill Windmill Rescue Appeal
Standing astride Argos Hill, between Mayfield and Rotherfield, the Grade 2* listed windmill is a sorry sight of decay and demise. A shadow of its former self, this historic windmill has spent the past 5 years shrouded in scaffolding. But the future looks bright for the Argos Hill Windmill as a group of local enthusiasts…
“Diek” Medendorp RIP
William Hill has highlighted a report in Holland Sentinel that Jan Diederik “Diek” Medendorp died on 4 January 2011 aged 89 Diek was the Dutch millwright who dismantled the windmill deZwaan in Vinkel, North Brabant, the Netherlands, and then rebuilt it in Holland. Michigan. The full report can be read at http://www.hollandsentinel.com/feature/x1254718900/Millwright-who-rebuilt-deZwaan-windmill-in-Holland-dies-at-89