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Kent Millers’ Tales

Authors: Luke Bonwick & Alan Stoyel Kent Millers’ Tales was a Heritage Lottery funded project carried out in 2005 with the aim of cataloguing the Mills Archive’s Kent collections, as well as those of Kent County Council. You can read the seven ‘Millers’ Tales’ here, or view an archived copy of the original site (though note that the links to…

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Historical introduction to mills and milling

Author: Luke Bonwick Overview Traditionally, a mill powered by wind, water or animals would have served every community. The study of milling from ancient querns to the steam mills of the Victorian era has fascinated historians for many years. The Roman architect Vitruvius (ca.70-25BC) wrote a detailed description of the use of waterpower in ancient…

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Evelyn ‘Eve’ Logan (1950-2000)

The following biography was written by Eve Logan’s husband, Bari M Logan, in 2002: Evelyn Logan (née Elkin) was born in Lenton, a suburb of the city of Nottingham, on the 2nd October 1950. Her father, Robert Elkin, was a coal miner haulage-man who worked at the local pits of Wollaton, Clifton and Cinderhill, whilst…

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