Can anyone help identify this artist? These two mill sketches were found with the Karl Wood collection of windmill sketches, but they are by another artist. The signature is hard to read, but the second image appears to have a monogram ‘IB’ in the corner. [images removed for copyright reasons] Here are the two signatures up close: If…
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Vincent Geoffrey Pargeter RIP
It is with great sadness that we hear that Vincent died in hospital overnight on 31 October. The mill world has lost someone very special. The most highly regarded millwright in the UK, having spent 42 years repairing and rescuing windmills, Vincent was a stawart of the SPAB Mills Section and a long-time Friend of…
Newly catalogued: John Munnings watermill drawings
Over 60 drawings of watermills by artist John Munnings are now available in the catalogue John Munnings (1916-1987) was the son of the miller at Mendham Mill, Suffolk. Like his famous uncle Sir Alfred Munnings he took to art and drew many sketches of watermills for a planned book. The sketches and typescript of the book…
From Quern to Computer: it begins!
Hello all – I’m Claire and I started in my role as Learning and Engagement Manager on the Heritage Lottery Funded ‘From Quern to Computer’ project here at MAT at the start of October 2015. I previously worked here as a volunteer during a summer break from Uni, so it’s been lovely to return to the wonderful team…
Heage Windmill urgent repairs – can you help?
There has been a lot of behind the scenes action by Heage Windmill Society since the discovery, just over a month ago, of wet rot in the fan and the main supports for the cap and sails at Heage windmill. The extent of the damage has been largely determined and a course of action needed…
A Sussex Windmill with Six Sweeps
Author: Sussex Miller Ashcombe Windmill on Kingston Hill, Lewes, in East Sussex now boasts six new sweeps. James Tasker, owner of the mill, commissioned millwrights to fabricate and fit the sweeps using a mobile crane and a cherry picker. This six sweep post mill was built in 1828 and destroyed during a gale in 1916,…
Mildred writes about Chinese milling for “Milling & Grain”
Hello everyone! As some of you may already know, our very own Mildred Cookson writes regular articles in the ‘Milling and Grain’ magazine on behalf of the Mills Archive. The magazine is published by Perendale Publishers, which is an Archive Patron, so being able to contribute some of our findings and interests to the magazine…
The SPAB Mills Section Collection completes its journey to the Archive
The material belonging to the SPAB Mills Section Collection, one of our four Foundation Collections, has now been reunited at its new home at the Mills Archive. Back in 2003 the first half of the collection was accessioned in the archive. This half contained collections by various prominent molinologists and members of the Mills Section…
Image identified as Partney Watermill
Thank you to Guy Boocock, James Wheeler and Leo van der Drift all of whom got in touch to let us know that the mill featured in last week’s mystery postcard was in fact Partney Watermill, near Spilsby in Lincolnshire. The mill no longer exists, but you can see where it stood on this 1887 OS…
Can you help us identify the mill in this postcard?
One of our regular volunteers, Tom Hine, spotted this postcard and we are having trouble deciphering the spidery handwriting! Could you decipher the name of the mill in the note, or perhaps you even recognise the mill on the front of the postcard? Here is a photo of the handwritten text on the back of…