Author: Ron Cookson

Come and see us in Reading

The Mills Archive is holding Open Days to mark National Heritage Weekend. For the first time Watlington House itself will...

National Lottery Share for Heritage consultation closes on 21 August 2010

It sounds as though more Lottery money will be coming to heritage projects! This is a welcome reversal of the...

A much awaited new edition

The original version of Guise and Lees’ book on Anglesey was so successful, the authors wished they had published a...

Brill Windmill – major new book

Luke Bonwick’s new book published this month looks to be a winner! Subtitled “The History, Technology, Conservation and Repair of...

A Threat to all our Mill Groups

It will only be a few years before members of mill groups will no longer be able to pay their...

Interested in Windmill Postcards?

The Mills Archive has several copies of many Simmons postcards and is starting to sell them on eBay to raise...

New Book on the arrival of a steam mill

An interesting new approach to a mill book is taken by Chris Mesely in Millers and Methodists Following the successful...

Amazing price for a piece of paper

An eBay auction has just finished fo a Carte de Visite fetching £265. Can anyone identify it? It was captioned...

Mills and Milling in the Herne Bay Area

The Friends of Herne Mill and the Herne Bay Historical Society have just published an impressive update of Harold Gough’s...

Bodley Foundry Collection

The iron foundry of Bodley & Co was located on Commercial Road in Exeter, Devon. Much archival material, relating to...

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