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Hydropower petition

eWaterpower, a company that specialises in providing electricity through waterpower throughout the UK and France, and one of our Corporate...

Oldland Windmill: then and now

Two images, one taken in the early 1900s and the second taken just last week, make for an interesting comparison....

Help identify our unidentified mills

We come across a lot of pictures in our collections of mills we can’t identify. You can help us by...

Sacrewell hits the small screen in Victorian Bakers

Author: Megan Allen See Sacrewell Mill like you’ve never seen it before in a new series that hits BBC Two...

A Boxing Day poem

Thought we’d share this somewhat gloomy take on Boxing Day from our archives. The poem was published in the journal...

Insurance for Lowfield Heath Windmill

Author: Jennifer Smith I wonder if you can help us. We need an insurance quotation for our windmill, a postmill...

Volunteering experience at The Mills Archive Trust where I never thought that I could be of help!

Author: Ioulia Zoukova This blog post comes from one of our newest volunteers, Ioulia. Ioulia is working on a stunning...

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...

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...

‘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...

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