Our new training workshop – Caring for your Collection – is being held at the Archive next week. Preparations are well under way, as you can see in the photo taken in the Founders’ Room. We gained this room earlier in the year and have designed it to comfortably accommodate training workshops and other meetings…
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Derelict mill to gain a new lease of life
An abandoned mill site in Liverpool is set to see a major regeneration programme that will repurpose the buildings as luxury apartments. Heap’s Rice Mill was once the provider of rice for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies among other products, and first began production in the 1780s. You can read about the new development on the BBC…
Who cares about cataloguing?
Author: Cara Sheldrake At the moment, as a volunteer, I am not hunting through collections researching for a project or digitising vital material; instead I organise books and pamphlets for the library. In any given week I catalogue a handful of new acquisitions, recent publications and donations, and continue to work through the backlog of…
Mill Models: Can you help?
One of our Heritage Partners is creating an educational display and they are on the lookout for 3 mill models each representing a smock, post and tower mill. Do you have any models that you are willing to donate to this good cause, or do you know of anyone who is looking to get rid…
Mills Archive completes narrative on the Holman Bros., Millwrights of Canterbury
Last week, Geoff Holman’s family – including widow Lynn, children Tim and Sophie and niece Sarah – attended a presentation on the work completed by a team at the Archive. We received Geoff’s Collection at The Mills Archive back in 2012. Before Geoff died in 2011, he had been working on writing a book about…
Upcoming new logo and website as seen in Mill Memories!
Our Autumn edition of Mill Memories is hot off the press and on its way to our Friends. Did you spot our new logo? The latest newsletter will be arriving on our Friends’ doorsteps soon. There are a number of fascinating articles highlighting just some of our material, such as our attractive milling journals and…
My last week as an intern… and exciting developments to look forward to!
Hello everybody! This week has been rather bittersweet for me, because it is (unfortunately) my last week as an intern at the Mills Archive. However, it has been just as exciting and fascinating as all the ones that have preceded it! One exciting development I am eager to reveal to you all is that our…
Mills go mystical
As the end of my internship nears, I feel as though I have spent a lot more than three months at the Archive, but also that my time here is passing far too quickly for my liking. I apologise for my absence from the blog for the past few weeks, but I was beginning to…
Crime TV series covers millstone thefts
Tune in to BBC2 on Monday 8th 7.05am to watch a Street Patrol episode that talks about the robbery of millstones from Jill Windmill in Sussex back in February 2013. A trustee of the Jack and Jill Windmills Society will be talking about the event on the TV programme, over one year since it happened.…
The Muggeridge Collection comes to The Mills Archive
We have just received the newest addition to our growing archive from all the way across the pond! The Muggeridge Collection arrived from the US and is now being stored at The Mills Archive. The arrival of this collection was especially appropriate because I had just found a press cutting about Donald Muggeridge, and felt…