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,…
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Kent Mills Society is launched
Author: Geoff Holman and Rob Cumming There has been a lot interest in the formation of a new group, mainly from postings on the Mills Archive website. We are calling ourselves the Kent Mills Society to differentiate us from the previous Kent group which ceased to exist some time ago. Until we are properly formed…
Help for Wind Engines
Author: Debra Nicholson Morse’s Wind Engine Park is looking for help – we need letters of support to accompany the planning application we are submitting. We wish to gain permission to turn an existing (temporary) log cabin into a holiday let which will in turn supply much needed funding to help with the survival of…
Mystery Watermill – possibly Sussex
Author: Sue Whitmore This August I exhibited two paintings of the same mill from different sides painted in the 1930’s by my father, Robert Whitmore. They were in a centenary exhibition of his work in his home town of King’s Lynn as part of the King’s Lynn Festival. I was contacted after the exhibition by…
Kent Outrage
Author: John Boucher, Luke Bonwick & Geoff Holman John found a fascinating item on agricultural machinery in Kent being ravaged by roaming bands of men. The full news item may be read by clicking on the related article link below. John wrote: I noticed the attached flashback to 1830 in Saturday’s Guardian. Did the destruction…
New!! Kent Mills Society
Author: Rob Cumming & Geoff Holman Following the earlier discussion on Mill Writing and and a very successful meeting at The Black Windmill, Whitstable, we have been encouraged to set up a new Kent Mills Society. The aims of the Society are to raise awareness and help protect Kent mills by research and recording existing…
Beware!!! Scrap of thieves!!!
Author: Jonathan McGuinness Last week, North Leverton mill fell victim to theft of valuable items from the mill. Two sets of sail shackles, one pair of stump irons, a spider crank, one forked sail rod, a quant for the French stones including a stone nut and at least two line shaft pulleys! Please ensure your…
Jack Windmill loses a Sweep
Author: Sussex Miller Paul Barber reports that the efforts taken by the Jack and Jill Windmills Society in replacing a stock on Jill windmill in 2007 are justified by the recent damage to Jack windmill. In late October the inner stock on Jack split and the upper sweep fell to the ground. This stock was…
Greenwich – early Medieval Tide Mill
Author: David Plunkett “Last summer digging through 3.5m of riverside mud at Greenwich in London, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a huge timber watermill of the 12th century. The wheel, part of which survived, would have been more than 5m across.” The Mill was found while a contractor was preparing the ground for a new…
VERDI Launch Report
Author: Carole Leith As of September 2009 the University of Kent at Canterbury have made available online thousands more images from their resources. The Versatile Digitisation Framework project [VERDI] was funded under the Enriching Digital Resources strand of the JISC Digitisation Programme. Whew… well that’s the official description, but actually the VERDI launch was one…