Today is the last day of #VolunteersWeek, and the Mills Archive would like to say another huge thank you to our volunteers – it’s your passion, expertise and hours of dedication that allow the Mills Archive to continue to flourish and work towards our mission of preserving records of milling heritage and making them available…
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Volunteers’ Week Profile Showcase: Jasmin’s Experience
This is #VolunteersWeek, and we’re feeling particularly thankful for our team of 20 volunteers who dedicate their time and skills to help us preserve records of milling heritage. Meet Jasmin, who has been with us for 4 weeks and is currently helping our Archivist, Nathanael, to digitise the Mining and Water Resources section of the…
Volunteers’ Week Profile Showcase: Meet Laura
Students make up a large portion of our volunteers, many of them interested in a career in archiving, heritage or research. It’s great to have young people helping out in the Archive to give a fresh, new perspective to the work we do. Kicking off our #VolunteersWeek profile showcase we have Laura, a third year…
Volunteers power the Mills Archive
Today marks the start of Volunteers’ Week. A national annual event running 1st-7th June, the purpose of the Week is to highlight the incredible work that volunteers do. Our own volunteers are no less deserving of this recognition, we are very proud of them and the contributions that they continue to make to the success…
A windmill postcard with a message from war-torn Europe
This intriguing missive was found by volunteer Tom Hine. The picturesque windmill captured on the front of the postcard carries with it a message that jumped out at Tom for several reasons… The references to wartime The writer, Mr Dré Smit of Gouda, describes recent war developments to the recipient, Lottie. He writes that “The…
Be a Mills Detective: May edition
Can you help us identify these archive photos of watermill sites? Unfortunately, many of these are left unidentified or misidentified for various reasons. We need some keen eyes to help us put names and locations to these mill sites. Last month we published a selection of unidentified Welsh mill photos for you to help us identify. Several…
A welcome education in 18th and 19th century millwrighting
Last week we were visited by Dr Jim Moher, author of a new publication about millwrights who were working in London at a time of great technological and social change. The impressive work – The London Millwrights: Masters and Journeymen in the late 18th and early 19th centuries – has been published by the Archive as the…
My introduction to archives as a cataloguing volunteer
Author: Orla Taylor-Davies I first heard of the Mills Archive when my mum sent me a photo of an article in the local paper about the Archive’s funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. As a student of History and History of Art, I am always seeking volunteer roles in the cultural heritage sphere, so I…
Be a Mills Detective
Can you help us identify these archive photos of Welsh mill sites? We have 10s of thousands of mill images on our catalogue. Unfortunately, many of these are left unidentified or misidentified for various reasons. We need some keen eyes to help us put names and locations to these mill sites. Each month we will…
Archives and Air Hangars
Our project – Archives & Air Hangars – has benefitted significantly from £10,000 we received from the Pilgrim Trust last year. Read on to find out what we have achieved for our milling records so far… The overall goal for the project was to improve storage conditions for our archival material so that it is…