The following tribute to Geoff by his wife Lynn was read at his funeral: Geoffrey Richard Holman was born on the 18th of August 1937 in Canterbury to Margaret and Tom Holman. With his older brother, he cycled around East Kent when young. No doubt his parents assumed he’d be safe with David, but Geoff…
Authors: Guy Boocock, Elizabeth Trout, Mildred Cookson 1: Overview2: The Holman family origins3: History of the business: Key facts, indentures and premises timeline4: History of the business: Workshops, retail and agriculture5: The staff of Holmans6: The war and the Holmans7: The Holman mills and their characteristics8: Holman mill profiles9: Black/Barham Downs Mill, Canterbury10: Glover's Mills…
Author: Helen Robinson Helen Robinson who is Eling Experience Manager has sent us a copy of their latest press release. Work is set to begin on developing one of the New Forest’s most important heritage attractions after the Eling Experience closed to the public on Saturday 28 February. New Forest District Council and Totton and…
Author: Peter Casebow In 1990 High Salvington Mill fought and won a planning against application to raise the roof of a house west of and adjacent to our mill… …as it would affect the wind flow to the mill, by agreeing with the owners to not increase the roof height. We cited a Dutch report…
Author: Cara Sheldrake What do we mean when we say the word “mill” and what sorts of things do we talk about when we examine “milling”? These are just two of the questions that we have been considering as part of the development of a classification system for the library. As the first phase of…
Author: Vincent Pargeter Peter grew up in Bedfordshire, and it was here that his interest in mills was kindled. He visited Stevington post mill while still at school, and was so fascinated by it that began to look at more mills, and learn about them. He began to research the local mills, but then the…
The following account of Michael Dunn’s life was written by his wife Mrs J Dunn in 2002: Dr Michael John Dunn was born in Lewisham on 18th June 1916. His father, the Rev. Robert Louis Acland Dunn, was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident on 26th February 1917 when Michael was only eight months old.…
Extracts from letters sent by L C Chapman’s daughter: My Dad, Leslie Charles Chapman, was born in Kingston, Surrey on 17 May 1908 about a month after his older 4 year old brother died, his father was a cobbler with a shop in Kingston and Teddington, he died when my Dad was only 5 years…
Author: Cara Sheldrake At the moment, as a volunteer, I am not hunting through collections researching for a project or digitising vital material; instead I organise books and pamphlets for the library. In any given week I catalogue a handful of new acquisitions, recent publications and donations, and continue to work through the backlog of…
Author: Alex Miller Whilst cataloguing a volume from the Kent Mills Group, I found the reproduction of a drawing showing 86 oxen pulling a post mill. The inscription records it as being moved on the 28th March 1797, 217 years ago today! The caption claims it is Jill Mill being moved to Clayton and it…
