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Roy Gregory’s obituary and funeral arrangements

The family would like to invite friends, family, colleagues and associates to celebrate Roy’s life at a service at Beverley...

Sacrewell Watermill Project Officer

The William Scott Abbott Trust has been awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to support the £1.7m Sacrewell Watermill...

Win £500 – two weeks until the deadline

A final reminder that the Mills Archive’s successful research competition is running for the second time, and proposed titles must...

Roy Gregory RIP 8 November 2013

Roy Gregory, very unexpectedly passed away early on Friday morning 8 November. Roy’s family have emailed inviting all of those...

Why 5th November is an important date for The Mills Archive

No, it’s not because of Bonfire Night! It was on 5th November 5 years ago that Elizabeth Trout first joined...

A Stunning New Windmill Book

The Mills Archive Library was delighted to receive a copy of this new book from the author, Helmut Dollhopf. Although...

Lake Mill, Corfe Mullen, Dorset

Author: John Palmer The location of a vanished watermill called Lake Mill, together with a vanished weir, silted old mill...

New at the archive: John Munnings Collection

A collection of detailed watermill sketches by artist John Munnings, together with his notes and the typescript for a book,...

Graffiti scrawled on Rottingdean Windmill

The BBC has reported that graffiti has been daubed on Grade II listed Rottingdean Windmill, on the outskirts of Brighton....

Arthur C. Smith, 1924-2013, RIP

Arthur died on Tuesday 18th June at a residential home in Newton Abbot. A polymath with strong interests in windmills,...

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