Author: David Haygreen I am renovating an old mill in North Wales and need to scrap or sell about five large gear sets associated with the running. Are these of interest to you or anyone you know? It seems a shame to cut them up for scrap value. I would guess the weights are around…
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Take a tour of Brixton Windmill on National Mills Weekend
Author: Dee Byrne Brixton Windmill will be opening to the public for guided tours in celebration of this year’s National Mills Weekend, which falls on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May. The weekend is dedicated to celebrating our milling heritage and offers an opportunity to visit mills all over the UK. At Brixton Windmill there…
Waterpump – Adair & Co., Liverpool
Author: Carl Ahlstrom (via Simon Potter) Some years ago you helped us when we were restoring a windmill on Gotland, Sweden. Now we have a new project, a wind-powered waterpump. Would you know someone that would know anything about Adair & Co. of Liverpool? We want to know the size and shape of the wings.…
Watermill for BBC2 programme
Author: Emma Randle-Caprez Please help! Calling all watermills needing restoration! I am looking for a disused watermill which we can restore for our series, Tudor Abbey Farm, the follow-up series to Wartime Farm, for BBC2. We are hoping to base our farm in the Chichester area, so any mills local to here would be great, although of…
Millstones
Author: Charles Rowntree Whilst excavating to build a new house attached to Beckside mill we found a millstone with what has obviously been a drilled and bolted rynd. The ones that I have seen in the past have been secured with lead. Whilst I have no objection to drilling and bolting, though I would have…
Millstone thefts in Sussex
Author: Sussex Miller These thieves stole five millstones from one Sussex Windmill. It would appear that they are using a lorry and hydraulic lifting equipment, as there was no evidence that the millstones had been rolled using manpower. Anyone who may have recently seen ‘contractors’ moving millstones or who has seen 4-foot-diameter millstones for sale…
Sack scales
Author: David Friend for Oldland Mill Trust Oldland Windmill of Keymer Sussex, rebuilt to working order, now wishes to make flour for sale to offset our maintenance. The Thatched Inn kindly donated a set of sack scales which we would like to use but we have no weights. Can anyone supply one of each, 28lb,…
Researching watermill in East Leake
Author: Paul Cooper I am working on a project with my ten-year-old adopted granddaughter to discover the origins of a local watermill that isn’t shown on any maps as far back as 1750 but for which we have strong evidence that the ruins that remain were not a bridge but a mill race. The image…
Thomas Brownlee Paisley
Author: Kimberley Neate Thomas Brownlee Paisley, of St Ives in Cambridgeshire, was a long standing member of the Newcomen society (The International Society for the History of Engineering and Technology), helping the society in many unobtrusive ways as well as serving as vice-president and a council member. He came from a well-known family in Glasgow, his father…
David H Jones
Author: Kimberley Neate David H. Jones was born in South Kensington, within walking distance of the Science Museum. Claiming to have always been interested in machines of every kind, later in life David read all that he could to find out how things worked. Although intrigued by watermills and windmills, mills were for some time…