Hello everyone! Great news – the Mills Archive will be holding its Research Competition for the 3rd time and we want you to enter! Now before I tell you everything you need to know about the competition, I would like to share a word I only heard today – the word is ‘molinological’. I know…
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The lonely millwright
We recently found a copy of the “Engineers’ Pocket-Book for the year 1840”. As well as accounts and notes on his work the owner had written the following poem expressing his hopes about life O that I could obtain my wishI’d have each day a dainty dishOf plain meat fowl or fishWith a bottle of…
Skeleton mills
Hey everyone, I hope all is well. Just another update on how my project is going, and a few more things I’ve discovered that I hope you find interesting (I certainly did)! By now you might have seen some of the catalogue entries on the Finnish mills from Rex Wailes’ outstanding collection. As they’ve now…
Sacrewell Watermill to reopen after £1.4 million renovations
Hello everyone! I would like to draw your attention today to Sacrewell Watermill, one of our Heritage Partners. You might recognise the name because we wrote a small blog previously about the Sacrewell Watermill Restoration Project. Well I am now pleased to say that the project is very nearly complete and the official opening weekend…
Oldland Mill Song
Hello everyone! Now some of you may recognise the name ‘Oldland Windmill’ because they were the winners of the English Heritage Angel Awards in 2014 when it was voted for the Angel Award for the English Heritage Followers’ and Telegraph Reader’s favourite. I found a bit about the history of the restorations for Oldland Windmill, one of…
Finnish watermills: The Crane of Death
Hello everyone, I hope you’re well and have been enjoying the lovely weather we’ve been having recently! I’ve realised that so far I haven’t spent all that much time talking about the watermills in the Rex Wailes collection, so thought that in this post I’d try to address that. Looking through the files we have…
Quern to Computer gets a logo
When our Archivist Nathanael isn’t busy being, well, an Archivist, he’s also getting involved in some of our creative activities. He has kindly designed the following logo for our new HLF-funded project, Quern to Computer. What do you think of it? We’ve been busy starting to prepare for this project, which will see us use…
Update from Kate: magpie mills and other Finnish quirks
Hello again! I hope this finds you well. Less than two weeks in and I already feel like a part of the Archive thanks to how welcoming the team are. It was also great to meet many of the Friends of the Archive at the Garden Party on Saturday, which was a brilliant day –…
White Mill
Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that we have a new Heritage Partner! White Mill in Sandwich! Of course I have been browsing their website and I want to tell you a bit about them. The mill itself is a smock mill and was built in 1760. It was restored between 1960 and 1981…
What is Kate up to?
Hello everyone! By now you have probably read Kate’s first blog as an intern. I don’t want to repeat anything so I just had a quick chat with her about how she was getting on with the Rex Wailes collection. Kate will have lots of interesting things to say in her next blog but as…