Today is the start of National Volunteers’ Week (extended this year from 1st to 12th June). For those of you who follow us on this blog, on Facebook and Twitter, you will have seen photos of some of our volunteers hard at work in lots of different ways. If you have been able to visit…
Category: Blog
Filter posts by tag:
Yorkshire & Lincolnshire mill fans: we need you to help us save a record of our milling heritage
The Great British Mill Race: Send us your Yorkshire & Lincolnshire mill pictures. 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 and pictures for any mill or mill site, from…
Restoration moves apace at Upminster Windmill
Author: Liz Bartram & Dennis Coombs What follows is an update on restoration progress at Upminster Windmill from the Chairman of the Friends of Upminster Windmill, Dennis Coombs. While the mill itself will remain closed to the public until 2018 while the restoration work takes place to bring it to full working order (the Visitor…
The Great British Mill Race: Send us your North East mill pictures
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 and pictures for any mill or mill site, from anywhere in the UK. The Race will be running until National Mills Weekend…
The Mills Archive in ‘Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine!’
The June issue of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine contains a double-page spread featuring an item from the Michael French Collection ‘Gem from the Archive’ is one of the magazine’s monthly features. In it Mildred discusses one of her favourite records from our rich collections, in this case the Michael French Collection. The document is…
The Great British Mill Race: Send us your North West mill pictures
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 and pictures for any mill or mill site, from anywhere in the UK. The Race will be running until National Mills Weekend…
Another successful National Mills Weekend ends… but the Great British Mill Race continues!
We hope you all enjoyed 2016’s sunny National Mills Weekend. The Great British Mill Race – a competition where you can help us update our Mills Database by sending us your pictures and information – will be running for many months to come. So why not submit your National Mills Weekend snaps at www.gbmillrace.org? The…
It’s time to join the Great British Mill Race
Our months of planning have finally come together: the Great British Mill Race is launching this weekend at the SPAB National Mills Weekend. Read on to discover how you can take part… The Great British Mill Race: How you can help us document the mills of the UK The Mills Archive is launching the Great…
The Eling Experience comes to the Mills Archive
Last week we enjoyed a visit from a group based at The Eling Experience in Hampshire, who were looking for an introduction to archiving to help them in understanding and recording material related to their own mill – Eling Tide Mill. The Eling Experience received a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.3 million in 2015…
Website survey results
Thanks to those who took part in our survey a while ago. The results are now in! The survey has given us lots to think about. It seems most users find our site very useful, but opinions are divided over how easy it is to use. Many people made suggestions for possible improvements and we…