A former owner of Skidby Windmill has died. Joseph Thompson, 94, was descended from the Thompson family who had run Skidby Mill since the 19th century. Mr Thompson sold the mill to Beverley Borough Council for £1 in 1966 and was instrumental in setting up the Museum Of East Riding Rural Life, which now occupies…
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East End’s Three Mills site gets restoration ‘green light’ in time for Olympics
House Mill in LB Newham – a Grade I-listed flour mill of international importance and perched on the edge of the Olympic Park – has been given the green light by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a £2.65million* grant. A development grant of £248,000 has been awarded to help the River Lea Tidal Mill…
Mill Named Brewery of the Year
Donnington Brewery in the Cotswolds has been named the UK’s Brewery of the Year by the Good Pub Guide. According to the guide’s editors, Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley, the 145-year old brewery near Stow on the Wold merits special praise. “… based at a picturesque ancient watermill, which operates in Gloucestershire”. The brewery, hidden…
Goole mill to be revamped
Looking at this sorry photo, hard to disagree… http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642454 The report http://www.goolecourier.co.uk/news/Windmill-revamped-by-Morrisons.5956876.jp from the Goole Courier says that Morrisons have applied for planning permission as part of big new supermarket development and wish to use the base as a store. The Grade II listed building looks in need of much work.
Ladies please
Heage gets a lady miller (though they seem to have forgotten Mildred Cookson…) and a US lady miller is also featured. Belper news http://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/Heage-Windmill-gets-a-lady.5727825.jpexaggerates Heage’s claim for “the only female flour miller in in the country”. Mildred has been the miller at Mapledurham for 30 years! Of more interest (see picture of Windmill Island Gardens miller…
Snuff Mills
Nice stuff on 2 Dutch snuff mills. The image is of a millstone used for milling spices, at De Ster snuff and spice mill in Rotterdam. 1. A detailed description with many excellent photos of the De Lelie and De Ster snuff and spice mills. The mills, both dating from the late 1700s, sit on…
Mill gets sails of the 21st century
One of Somerset’s most unique windmills has had its sails repaired following a two-year wait. This was noted in various places including http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/news/gets-sails-21st-century/article-1042451-detail/article.html More links to Internet stories on mills can be found in the related article below
History of the Tornado Windmill Co
In the latest set of links to news items, an interesting history of the Tornado Windmill Company in New York State from its founding in 1874 attracted my attention The full article may be found at http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/articles/2009/05/04/news/5311178.txt American windmills are of course referred to in the UK as wind engines, but ours don’t look quite like Tornados!…
Shipley Windmill Set to Close
Jim Woodward-Nutt is reported in the Sussex Express as stating that the Shipley Windmill Trust will have to hand back the mill to their landlord The recent need for repairs has highlighted the difficulty in getting grants as there are only 3 years left on the lease. This maenas that the mill may not be…
Peotone windmill’s fate still twisting in the wind
The Chicago Tribune reports on the Rathje Windmill which has stood guard on the north end of Peotone in southern Will County, which now needs money spent on it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peotone_windmill_sw_zone_05feb05,0,3667001.story See also the mill’s website: http://www.peotone.com/rathjemill/index.htm