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Word Jumble

Since November 2023, I have been working as the Renewable Energy Intern at the Mills Archive Trust. My main project...

Priority Collections

Getting our priorities in order With 286 collections in our archive, ranging from 1 to over 200 boxes in size,...

Renewable Roots

This is the beginning of a new series that explores the link between milling, renewable energy and climate change. We...

Sketches by Thomas Hennell

This sketch, showing the machinery in an unnamed mill, is one of a number drawn by artist Thomas Hennell and...

Work experience at the Mills Archive

I’m coming to the end of my two weeks of work experience at the Mill Archive Trust, having originally applied...

Breathing Fire

Chris Viney Sonning Mill – Steam Traction Engine, 1890 (Mills Archive Collection,EIGH-SON-02-007) This photograph shows a steam wagon outside Sonning...

The Advent of Modern Milling

Find out more about the origins of roller mills in the articles below: History of Roller Milling: Farewell to the...

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...

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