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Tales from Rex Wailes: No half measures

Rex Wailes, like his father, was first and foremost an engineer, but soon became the authority on wind and watermills....

A Happy and Productive Partnership

One of our first visitors to the Archive, as we carefully start to welcome researchers back, expressed great interest in...

Support for our Millwrighting Records from the Swire Charitable Trust

We are delighted to announce that the Swire Charitable Trust has made a substantial grant of £23,289 to the Mills...

Mills make the world go round

Mills are most well-known for grinding corn into flour. Over the centuries mills powered by wind, water and other power sources...

Feeding the World: Animal and water power

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics...

The Mill of Wealth

Mills have often featured in myth and legend. One ancient Norse poem, the Grottasongr or Lay of Grotti tells of...

Our Milling Engineers and the Milling Revolution

Many articles from The Miller or Milling demonstrate the importance to the milling trade of conventions and exhibitions. Both these...

Mills make the world go round saw mills

Mills are most well-known for grinding corn into flour. Over the centuries mills powered by wind, water and other power sources...

Feeding the World: The first milling stones

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics...

Tales from Rex Wailes. Ups and downs of the old type millwrights

In the Rex Wailes collection is a file of correspondence with John Bryant. Born 1861, Bryant was, in his own...

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