Author: Laura Felton-Hustwitt For the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to look through and catalogue two of John Munnings’ watermill sketchbooks. Containing 143 sketches of water mills from all over the country, it was a long but worthwhile process scanning and recording each and every page. My job was to add the…
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Heygates: our adventure into a modern roller flour mill
Last week our Archivist Nathanael, our Chairman Ron and I were given the rare opportunity to explore the Heygates flour mill in Hertfordshire. While we knew the experience would be very different from a traditional windmill or watermill, nothing could have prepared us for what we found there! Heygates is a company with a long…
The match between the floury men and the iron men
This week I have continued my research on the roller milling industry internationally and have moved on to look at Australia. Given that the Ashes have begun this week, I thought I’d see if I could find any more connections between the milling world and the world of cricket, having briefly explored the connection between…
Explore Your Archive Week: Day 1
The annual National Archives’ ‘Explore Your Archive’ week is upon us, and we start with a focus on a collection belonging to, arguably, the foremost British molinologist of the 20th century, Rex Wailes OBE. Our library holds over 70 of Rex’s books and journal articles, each containing a wealth of knowledge; but it is his…
‘For wheat, like men, is always found mixed good and bad, diseased and sound’!
Hello again! As I promised in my last blog in October, I’m back! My internship is continuing, after its brief interlude, and I look forward to sharing events from the Archive with you again along with interesting items and stories that I’m sure I will come across in the continuation of my project on roller…
Workshop for the mill heritage community (featuring Mr Bean)
We were privileged to meet some hard-working people from around the country on Tuesday. The reason? We ran our annual training workshop, “Caring for your Collection”, attended by people working, volunteering and living at mills and who are just as determined to preserve milling heritage as we are! The workshop included sessions covering how to…
We’re looking forward to tomorrow’s workshop!
We’re putting together the final preparations for tomorrow’s training workshop. “Caring for your Collection” is a regular workshop we run for people who have their own mill collections and are looking for advice on how to look after it. These workshops are popular with people working and volunteering at mills and provide those of us…
Be part of the future of Marsh Mill and help to keep the sails turning
Marsh Mill in Thornton, Lancashire, is approaching its 223rd birthday. The Friends of Marsh Mill now wish to move the Mill to the next stage in its development, so that it can continue to remain an important landmark for years to come. The Friends also hope to establish a National Windmill Museum in the future.…
Thank you for making Saturday’s symposium a success!
We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who came to Saturday’s symposium. For those of you who didn’t attend, read on to discover the highlights and to see photos of the accompanying exhibition! We were delighted to host a joint symposium with the SPAB Mills Section, and it was lovely to…
A special visit from the National Archives of Indonesia!
We were delighted to host a visit from the National Archives of Indonesia yesterday. The reason? They are starting to use AtoM for their own cataloguing software to connect all the regional archives throughout their country, and they wanted to hear about how it is used at the Mills Archive. So the work that our…