Volunteer Andrew Munro has left us after two years of hard work on the E M Gardner collection. Andrew joined us in 2014 to gain work experience with archives. For most of his time here he has been working throught the collection of notes and photographs created by E M Gardner, a leading watermill researcher…
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Sifting through flour milling history
What do you know about the history of flour milling? From Quern to Computer, our Heritage Lottery Fund supported project, focuses on how the stories of technological changes to flour milling and the development of our society are closely intertwined. We want to know what you think are the key developments of the flour milling. We are…
Explore Anglesey Windmills
Windmills are an important part of the history of the island of Anglesey. Here are some of the resources on Anglesey mills in the Archive. Our database lists 48 windmills on the island, many still standing and some long gone. A recent addition to our catalogue is the SPAB’s Anglesey file from their 1929 mill survey…
Is it a bird… is it a plane?
Read on to find out which entry to the Great British Mill Race has been awarded the most unusual mill picture prize. There’s still time to get your entries in – you could be our next prize winner! Like mills? Like prizes? Then enter the Great British Mill Race here: www.gbmillrace.org For some inspiration you can…
My last week at the Archive
Author: Hannah Pearce After 12 weeks of blogging, researching and writing stories, I only have a few days left at the Archive. When I first arrived, I had the basic knowledge that mills and archives existed but not much beyond that. Now, I can tell you about post, smock and tower mills, as well as…
Summer in the south?
Holidaying this summer in Dorset, Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire, Sussex, Isle of Wight…? Send us your pictures and information relating to the mills of southern England for the Great British Mill Race. The Great British Mill Race – a competition where you can help us update our Mills Database by sending us your pictures and information -…
Hear about life at Union Mill, Cranbrook
The latest additions to the Cranbrook mill archive are two audio recordings of reminiscences about life at the mill. You can hear the recordings here. They were made in 1994 and feature Helen Wilson (pictured) talking about her family and her memories of the mill. She was the niece of the last miller, John Russell, and…
What do you know about Irish mills?
The Great British Mill Race: Send us your pictures and information relating to the mills of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The Great British Mill Race – a competition where you can help us update our Mills Database by sending us your pictures and information – is now up and running. Send us information…
Weird, wonderful… winner!
The Great British Mill Race is now in full swing – could you be our next prize winner? Read on to see our June prize winners and get your unusual mill pictures ready to submit to http://www.gbmillrace.org for our July prize… Like mills? Like prizes? Then enter the Great British Mill Race here: www.gbmillrace.org For some inspiration…
A Man of Distinction
Most people who use the Mills Archive will have come across or benefited from the work of Nathanael Hodge, our archivist. Over the years, since Nathanael first joined as a volunteer, he has been instrumental in ensuring our collections are protected and made available to the public. We are now delighted to announce that Nathanael…