Author: Ron Cookson

National Monuments Record archives catalogues now online

The National Monuments Record’s archives catalogues, with some images, describing over a million photographs and other archives, are now online...

Free! Large number of Newcomen Transactions

The Mills Archive Library has about 50 volumes of the Newcomen Transactions dating from the 1940s. They are available free...

Irish Photographs

The National Library of Ireland has recently released 34,000 of its 630,000 original Irish photographs on its website. They are...

Frank W. Gregory Collection

Frank W. Gregory’s collection of mill-related archival material has been catalogued as part of a collaborative project, hosted by the Mills...

Knockando Watermill survives

William Hill’s recent list of Internet links to mill news includes an uplifiting article in Saga Magazine. In 2004 the...

Threat to Mill Groups

Mill Groups and other small organisations will not be able to receive donations by cheque from 2018. The Payments Council...

Putting Old Watermills Back to Work

GM Bartlett’s letter in today’s Sunday Telegraph bemoans the emphasis on wind turbines in Wales when there are so many...

2012 Olympics and Heritage

Could Mills benefit from this latest HLF announcement? If you have a project in mind that could have an Olympic...

Wind turbine blade snaps off UPDATE

Simon Potter and Tim Chapman have helped me update the news item that originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph on...

Millwrights’ Memories

I was just entering details of this book on our Internet shop, when I came across the chapter “Millwrights’ Memories”....

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