Artist Tom Burnham and local author Gregory Holyoake have collaborated and jointly published a special edition art book featuring sixteen Kent mills. The book can be bought here and features: Sandwich White MillMargate Draper’s MillSarre Smock MillCrabble Corn MillChillenden Post MillCanterbury St Martin’s MillWillesborough Smock MillWestwell WindmillWoodchurch White MillWittersham Smock MillSandhurst New MillChilham WatermillCranbrook Union MillMeopham Killick’s…
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Moulton Windmill on Facebook
Neil Everitt has just created a Facebook page for Moulton Windmill. Well worth visiting: click here.
Jerusalem Mill turns after 140 years
The Dutch millwrights from Friesland who have been restoring the Holman “Montefiore” mill in Jerusalem have now got it turning. A very encouraging video shows the mill on its first day of turning since the 19th century – 6th August 2012 – almost 150 years since it last worked. The project, a gem of international cooperation involving…
Burwell Museum and Windmill wins Heritage Lottery Fund support
Burwell Windmill has announced that “Burwell Museum in East Cambridgeshire has been awarded £417,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards their exciting Fresh Wind in Our Sails project”. The project aims to restore the Grade II* listed Stevens’ Windmill and integrate and improve the displays across the mill and museum as a whole. Work will…
It is a piece of cake
Our Friends’ Garden Party on Saturday 7th July was a big success and we even had a birthday cake! In spite of the weather, more than 50 supporters turned out and had a good time, helping us to celebrate our 10th birthday. Visitors were impressed not just by the quantity and quality of our work…
Mill enthusiasts welcome!
Mick and Helen Cooke have enrolled their watermill near Carcassonne as the first French mill to join the Friends of the Mills Archive. The mill at Villegailhenc is now on our Featured Mill page – see Featured Mills As well as describing what they have discovered, Mick and Helen are also seeking information and are prepared…
Dirty Deeds
Do you have any deeds of mills and related buildings that you are keeping somewhere safe (like a bank)? If so then read the alarming story below from an archivist in a London borough, and think about retrieving them and donating them to an archive to make sure they are protected! A local resident came…
The English Heritage Archive – 12 million items to look through
The National Monuments Record (NMR) is now known as the English Heritage Archive and their Chief Archivist, Mike Evans, has provided a useful description of how to search the 12 million items they hold. Mike’s email is reproduced below. Well worth a visit! English Heritage is the guardian of a remarkable range of data, photographs…
Are you passionate about mills?
If you are, why not visit the Mills Archive in Reading and help us to celebrate our tenth anniversary? We have so much to show you; you can discover the stories behind the mill heroes of the 20th century and meet some from the 21st! Of course we havethousands of photographs and documents to look…
If you ever needed a reason for joining the SPAB Mills Section
Well – here it is! The new A4 format for Mill News is combined with impressive and varied content and is a delight to hold and read. There are, as you would expect, a number of interesting articles and shorter pieces, but what immediately strikes you is the professional look of the publication. For those…