Author: Earl Taylor The Tide Mill Conference for 2009 is scheduled for Friday, Saturday November 6-7, 2009. The venue will be the Dorchester Historical Society’s William Clapp House at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA in the USA The Tide Mill Institute, under the auspices of The Dorchester Historical Society will host the fifth Annual…
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Oldland Mill Granary Reprieve
Author: Philip Hicks I was pleased to hear that the Oldland mill granary conversion application was turned down on Thursday night. It was very close and we seemed to be losing until the very end when there was a surprise turnaround. The Oldland Mill Trust publicised the plans in February – see http://www.millsarchivetrust.org/index.php/blogs/more/urgent_response_needed_toplanning_application The owners of…
A Google Book on Mills
Author: David Plunkett This information on a ‘mill book’ published in the USA seems to have excited Bud Warren in the State of Maine, so it may do the same for us in the UK. Search it out and see for yourself. After drooling over what I could find of it on Google Books, I…
SPAB Autumn Meeting November 2009
Author: Simon Hudson This year’s meeting is at Belvoir Castle and is well worth supporting! If the meeting is the success it promises to be, we will consider holding other meetings outside London. See the details in the booking form accessible from the Related Article below The Mills Archive bookshop – which also sells books…
Wikipedia – help expand the coverage of mills there
Author: Peter King I expect many of you will have heard of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Well, there are many Wikipedias in many languages. The English language Wikipedia is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page I’ve been working on expanding the coverage of mills on Wikipedia. This is where you can help too, You can…
Kenneth Major: heritage architect and author
Author: Simon Hudson Ken’s obituary appears in the Times today (Saturday 8 August) The printed version contain two large photos of the wheel at Painshill. The web version at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6787679.ece includes this fine photo taken by Erik Stoop at the TIMS conference in the Netherlands in 2007.A memorial fund for Ken has been established at http://millsarchivetrust.org/memorial.htm
Coles-Finch Bargain?
Author: Russell Jones Windmill and Watermill enthusiasts may be interested to see that there is reprinted copy of Watermills and Windmills by William Coles Finch for sale on eBay. It has a very reasonable Buy It Now price of £22.75 including postage, and there are still 28 days to run. As the archive bookshop currently…
Environment Agency plans for the River Wensum in Norfolk
Author: Jonathan Neville Readers might be interested in the far reaching plans the Environment Agency has for the River Wensum in Norfolk. From the Natural England report: “A survey in 2002 showed that the ecological condition of the river had declined, and the principal reasons for unfavourable condition were water quality and siltation. The siltation…
Mills Research in Reading
Author: Guy Blythman The Mills Research Group will now hold one of its two meetings each year at the Mills Archive in Reading. 24 October is the date for your diary this year. Non-members are welcome to attend and find out what we are up to! If you would like to come or just want…
The Power of Waterwheels
Author: Stuart Mousdale Does anyone know of any books, articles, etc which deal with estimating power output from water wheels or could comment on this subject? I work as a volunteer at Dunham Massey sawmill in Cheshire. Recently there has been some discussion amongst the mill stewards regarding the power output from the water wheel…