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The frogs and the stork: Cartoons by John Doyle

Phoebe Goldsmith One of the most recent additions to our collections is the archive of UK Flour Millers (previously NABIM)...

Spanish Windmills

Rex Wailes Some time in the 1950s or 60s, Rex Wailes visited Spain and toured the mills of La Mancha,...

Paine’s mills of St Neots

My family roots hail from Huntingdonshire and in particular St Neots which sits right on the boundary of old Bedfordshire...

Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund has made our project, Reading emPOWERed, a reality

The Mills Archive Trust has been awarded a grant of £198,751, made possible by the money raised by National Lottery Players....

The Twilight of the Mills

This article first appeared on our blog in August 2018. The sketch below was drawn by the eccentric and enigmatic...

Unusual places to find a mill

This article first appeared on our blog in January 2018.  Boat Mill, 19th century (Mills Archive Collection, MCFC-ENG-064) If asked to...

Form of an Appointment of an Agent of Millers

This week’s gem from the Owen Ward Collection gives a glimpse of the role mills would have played in an...

Moroccan Mills 3 – The Mill in the Community

Michael Harverson Michael Harverson (1937-2017) was one of the founding trustees of the Mills Archives. A particular interest of his...

Toy Theatre

This week’s Gem is an unusual item from the Alan Stoyel Collection. It is a set of papers with images...

Heage Windmill has problems

Alan Gifford (Founder Trustee) Heage Windmill, near to Belper in Derbyshire, was built in c 1795 and worked until 1919. It...

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