Author: Bob Paterson I thought creating a group on Facebook for TEAMS (The East Anglian Mills Society) may be an easier way to let people know of special events and dates of work-ins at windmills & watermills that are part of the TEAMS family. You can find the group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=75622895210why not take a look and…
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Can you help identify some windmills?
Author: Peter Brabham I know this is Chesterton! I am a geology lecturer at Cardiff University and a keen photographer of industrial scenes (mines, steam engines etc.). For many years from 1992 on various holidays I took many photographs of Windmills but unfortunately did not make many notes. I have now put all my mill…
Developments at Cann Mills
Author: Mark Berry Michael Stoate, a fifth-generation miller milling at a 1000 year old mill site, recently had a difficult decision to make, concerning the quirky windmill his father had constructed in 1970 on the flat roof of the family watermill at Cann, Dorset.The reduced scale windmill, to a Portuguese design, had deteriorated, with the…
New Website on European Windmills
Author: Leo van Raamsdonk For years now I am interested in regional diversity and development of windmills. After a period that I didn’t have the possibility to pay attention, I recently started to study traditional windmills again. One of the current results is a website with a.o. a computer program for identifying European windmills. Another…
Urgent response needed to planning application
Author: The Oldland Mill Trust The owners of Oldland Mill House, have submitted two applications entitled “Alterations to create ancillary accommodation for guests or staff.” The building in question is in fact Oldland Mill Granary. Oldland Windmill is Grade II-listed and it has been assumed that the Granary was within the curtilage of the mill…
Does anybody have a picture of the following windmills prior to their loss?
Author: Philip Hicks Bodsham Green, Elmsted in Kent Old mill at Blean in Kent Lynsted (except for the one by W Coles Finch) in Kent Betsham, Southfleet in Kent The 100 Acre tower mill at Sheerness in Kent Chequer mill or Good Intent mill at Guilton in Kent. I am sure there must be photographs/paintings…
Image for identification – Frank Gregory online
Author: Sussex Miller As a member of the team helping to identify the mill slides of Frank Gregory, I attach a photo which the team felt we really ought be able to identify! Please add a comment to this blog if you can identify the subject of the photo, its location and an indication of…
Windmill Hill Windmill
Author: Bee Frost Dear Mills Archive, I enclose an image of the windmill which the Trust is happy for you to use. Best regards Bee Frost, Windmill Hill Windmill Trust: http://www.windmillhillwindmill.co.uk/ We are very glad to say that Windmill Hill windmill restoration project was completed in the autumn of 2006. We are now open to…
Broughton Windmill
Author: Nick Further to the previous note at http://www.millsarchivetrust.org/index.php/blogs/more/millers_in_broughton_by_brigg_lincolnshire I believe that this is the Broughton Mill. that was [probably] occupied by Thomas Winn (land held in 1814), then [Thomas Winn’s probable son] John Winn (who listed it in his 1867 will having apparently bought it from Foster) and then John Winn’s step-son (Porkess). The…
We still need mill research!
Author: Tony Bryan I reckon that mill research to record the surviving mills that are still fairly complete is urgent. (originally posted on Facebook) When the present economic recession lifts the historic property converters will get back into action with renewed vigour. Many mill enthusiasts have personal records going back 50 years, or so, and…