Author: Ioulia Zoukova This blog post comes from one of our newest volunteers, Ioulia. Ioulia is working on a stunning visual project as a contribution to our Heritage Lottery Funded From Quern to Computer project. Read about her experiences below… I first came across The Mills Archive in my first year of university in 2013,…
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Local archivists on a ‘busman’s holiday’
Over the past two weeks, the local Berkshire Record Office in Reading has been closed for its annual stocktake and housekeeping. The staff also take the opportunity for an annual visit to an archive. This year they asked if they could visit the Mills Archive to find out more about our resources and services, particularly…
Grinding plate mill spindle looking for a good home
The team at White Mill in Sandwich, Kent, have come across a grinding plate mill spindle and are keen to offer it to a good home. It has no base or any other parts, but may be suitable for restoration. If you are interested please can you send me an email (friends@millsarchive.org) and I will…
‘Reading at t’ mill’: report on talk by University of Reading lecturer Dr Nicola Wilson
Last weekend, as part of ‘Being Human’ (the UK’s only festival of the humanities), Dr Nicola Wilson of the University of Reading’s English Department gave a talk entitled ‘Reading at t’ mill’. Attendees also heard from our very own Mildred Cookson on the foundation of the Mills Archive, her experience in the milling industry and…
Fire at t’mill – the 3500th press cutting and accompanying images from the Peter Dolman Collection
Last Friday, Talbot Green, a stalwart volunteer, reached a milestone – uploading the 3500th press cutting onto our Archive Catalogue. It recorded a significant event – Wangford Smock Mill, Suffolk ablaze on 7 August 1928 as it crashed to the ground! Fire is an ever present risk as flour is highly combustible. Added to a…
Exploring the Mills Archive
The annual National Archives “Explore Your Archive” campaign from 14-22 November helps archives to promote their services and collections, and encourages people to visit archives for research or general interest. We would like to encourage all mill researchers to visit our Archive and Reading Room in Reading, just like Graham Allen did when he visited…
Inspiring future archivists: Reading Experience Fair and Careers Fair
In the recent months, the Archive has been particularly busy collaborating with the University of Reading on their Careers and Experience Fairs, hoping to spread the word about our work and the good that can be done in the heritage, and even charity, sector. On Wednesday 30th September, our Information Manager, Elizabeth Trout, volunteer Alex…
Sign to support Brixton Windmill’s Education Programme
The Friends of Windmill Gardens (FoWG), who run Brixton Windmill, have launched an online petition to save the education project at the mill. Continue to read to find a link to the online petition. You can sign the petition here. They urgently need to persuade Lambeth Council not to delay its plans for a new building…
Many a Marvellous Miller of Movember!
Mark Movember with Millers and their moustaches! To mark Movember we’ve mined our collections to bring you our most marvellous miller moustaches! We’re gathering these together over on Flickr. We hope you enjoy these pictures – please get in touch if you have more to add, or can help us name an as of yet ‘unidentified’…
Mystery artist identified
The artist of the mill images found in the Karl Wood collection was Captain Irvine Bately. Thanks to Adrian Allan and @rutlandned who both got in touch to suggest Irvine Bately. He illustrated several books including his brother-in-law R Thurston Hopkins’ book on Sussex, The Kipling County (1924). Captain Bately died in 1962, meaning that the images are…