Author: Cláudia Silveira and others Portuguese and French mill people are hoping to raise international concern about the proposed destruction of the only tide mill in Ile de Ré. Please make your comments on their blog at http://sauvezlemoulinamaree.over-blog.org/ Dear Friends, We’ve received information about the decision of demolishing the Loix tide mill, the only one that…
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Inaugural Meeting of Kent Mills Society: Programme Announced!
Author: Geoff Holman and Rob Cumming Our first meeting will be at Cranbrook Windmill on Saturday 22 May at 2pm. All are welcome – Put it in your diary! Now that we have our first newsletter published – see http://www.millsarchivetrust.org/index.php/blogs/more/cant_post/ ; we are organising our first public meeting, so please come! There will be 3 speakers. Wynn…
Cant Post
Author: Geoff Holman and Rob Cumming The Kent Mills Society has just published the first issue of its newsletter. Full of photos and news; it is certainly worth a look! THE KENT MILLS SOCIETY HAS BEEN LAUNCHED WITH THE PUBLICATION OF ITS FIRST NEWSLETTER, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO THE 50 MEMBERS OF THE…
Hand Mills Anyone?
Author: Tacco Van Geertruyen I am an archaeology student at the university of Ghent (in Belgium) and I’m a bit stuck on the situation of the first rotating hand mills in England I specialise in industrial archaeology and am now working on my thesis. The subject I’m working on is millstones throughout the centuries. At…
Lytham Windmills Gets a New Website
Author: Steve Williams I have created a new website for Lytham Windmill. I keep adding bits now and then! The website at www.lythamwindmill.co.uk gives details about Lytham’s best known landmark, the Windmill. The mill contains a seasonal museum with a series of exhibits focussed on the “History of Mills and Milling” and the “Heritage of Lytham St Annes and…
Donald Muggeridge Collection
Donald W Muggeridge donated his collection of mill photographs and transparencies to the Templeman Library at the University of Kent at Canterbury. In a collaborative project we catalogued and uploaded scans of more than 400 selected photographs. That part of the collection featured on the Mills Archive catalogue include the windmills of Dorset and Nottinghamshire; photographs of many traditional…
Unknown windmill
Author: Andy Harris Can you advise on how to find out about this windmill or can anyone identify this? My parents were about to throw it away!!! I found 3 old paintings. I’m hoping to find out more about this painting of a windmill and why my grandparents and probably great- or even great-great-grand parents…
Speldhurst Mill Planning Application
Author: Rob Cumming I recently went down to Bradleys Mill, Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, and was alarmed to find it fenced off, as if ready for redevelopment or conversion. The mill itself is a good example of a West Kent/Sussex village corn mill, and remains internally complete, although the waterwheel has deteriorated markedly…
Online petition
Author: Jonathan Cook The Traditional Cornmillers Guild has logged an e-petition with No 10 Downing Street to raise our concerns regarding the impact of the proposed fortification of flour with folic acid on traditional milling in the UK. This has now been approved and can be accessed here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/folic-acid-mills/Please do your utmost to get customers…
Impact on mills of proposed legislation to fortify flour with folic acid
Author: Jonathan Cook The Traditional Cornmillers’ Guild asserts that implementation of proposed legislation may cause wind and water mills to have to cease flour production risking their future viability. Guild accepts there may be a scientific case for fortification of some flours to reduce such incidences but without an opt out from the proposed legislation,…