Finlay Macleod has completed his book on the Norse mills of Lewis and the publishers hope to have it available at the end of June. Finlay has written an introduction to the book – certainly worth a look! The introduction and full details are available on the Mills Archive bookshop at http://shop.millsarchivetrust.org/ As Finlay is a…
Author: Ron Cookson
What about setting up a Kent Mills Group?
Kent has an amazing milling heritage and various Kent mills-related events and research interests have surfaced recently. Surely the time is ripe to consider (re)forming a regional mill group to cover Kent? Certainly the Mills Archive would offer tangible support to such a new group. Although the previous Kent group was dissolved, the thinking behind…
Barry Mill under Threat
The National Trust for Scotland is threatening to close this attractive mill, one of the last working in Scotland, unless it improves its finances. William Hill’s latest set of Internet news (see related article) highlights the recent announcement. http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1168694?UserKey&UserKey= Friend of the Mills Archive and Barry Mill property manager, Peter Ellis urged people to seize the…
Should you belong to a Mills Group?
Even in my short acquaintance with mills, I have seen Groups come and go, so is there any point to them? Recently the group in Kent (of all places!) folded because no-one would continue the good work carried on for many years by Paul Jarvis and his contemporaries. I think that we need these Groups…
New Issue of Wind and Water Mills
The latest issue (number 28) of the Journal of the Midland Wind and Water Mills Group has just been published. It contains four articles up to the usual high standard of this well-regarded journal.The following counties are featured: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Shropshire Contents:Hampton Loade Forge Top Mill (David Poyner)WS Barron & Son, Mill Engineers of…
Medieval London water mill found
William Hill’s latest list of news links includes the BBC News item from mid February http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7894524.stm describing the 12th century tide mill at Greenwich. Other links from William are below:http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=2062 The water mill revolutionary http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146285/Uncovered-Archaeologists-unearth-remnants-giant-medieval-watermill.htmlMedieval Mill in Greenwich & http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7894524.stm & http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Yorkshire-team-preserves-medieval-mill.5013216.jp (7 several others) Mills for sale (lots of money!) http://www.property.org.uk/unique/mills.html & http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-18570841.html/svr/1012;jsessionid=FD93FEAF65E58A094B25B11D6525FB4B http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/weird/090227_windmill_homes A texan new miller? http://www.archwind.org/ Helping the local economy…
National Mills Weekend 2009
We are thinking of opening on National Mills Weekend this year. It is on May 9-10 2009. If we do, will anyone come to see us? Like many other European countries, each year a weekend is set aside for as many mills as possible to be open to the public. The SPAB Mills Section has…
So, what would you pay?
Did anyone else see the phenomenal amount of money spent on one windmill postcard on eBay this week? Fortunately there are still a lot of good postcards around for much less. Tp raise funds, the Mills Archive sometimes sells postcards (such as the one illustrated) on eBay. Of course they are all duplicates of ones…
Anger over ‘green’ plans to harness energy from UK rivers
Anglers have attacked plans to build hundreds of “environmentally-friendly” water mills in British rivers. Jasper Copping in the Sunday Telegraph reports. The full report is at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/hydro_electricenergy/4214030/Anger-over-green-plans-to-harness-energy-from-UK-rivers.html
Preston Mill near Faversham
Vincent Pargeter has commented on the curious sweeps on the smock mill near Faversham shown in the Mills Archive’s new Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/millsarchive/ The site and Vincent’s note are both of interest! The outer pair of sweeps on the flikr photo of the smock mill at Preston Nr Faversham are wide and significantly tapered. The…