Our Friends’ Garden Party on Saturday 7th July was a big success and we even had a birthday cake! In spite of the weather, more than 50 supporters turned out and had a good time, helping us to celebrate our 10th birthday. Visitors were impressed not just by the quantity and quality of our work…
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Mill enthusiasts welcome!
Mick and Helen Cooke have enrolled their watermill near Carcassonne as the first French mill to join the Friends of the Mills Archive. The mill at Villegailhenc is now on our Featured Mill page – see Featured Mills As well as describing what they have discovered, Mick and Helen are also seeking information and are prepared…
Finchingfield Windmill
I wonder if anyone could shed any light on the windmill item attached? It is from the collection of my late friend, ex-neighbour and WSU member, Des Motley. It is a disc (brass?) 25mm in diameter with a tower mill and the text FINCHINGFIELD at the bottom. I wondered whether it might have been a…
Ron Cookson MBE
Author: Peter King I am pleased to report that Dr Ron Cookson, founding chairman of the Mills Archive Trust, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list, “for services to heritage”. I know that Ron was astonished and gratified by the news. He has asked me to say that he regards the…
More collections on the Hub
Fourteen Mills Archive collections are now on the Archives Hub. These include two full catalogues, the Reid Windmills Albums and E Lancaster Burne Correspondence, and twelve described at collection level only. The Archives Hub has also made the Mills Archive the subject of its monthly feature, which can be read here (follow the link at the end to see a list…
Dirty Deeds
Do you have any deeds of mills and related buildings that you are keeping somewhere safe (like a bank)? If so then read the alarming story below from an archivist in a London borough, and think about retrieving them and donating them to an archive to make sure they are protected! A local resident came…
The English Heritage Archive – 12 million items to look through
The National Monuments Record (NMR) is now known as the English Heritage Archive and their Chief Archivist, Mike Evans, has provided a useful description of how to search the 12 million items they hold. Mike’s email is reproduced below. Well worth a visit! English Heritage is the guardian of a remarkable range of data, photographs…
Are you passionate about mills?
If you are, why not visit the Mills Archive in Reading and help us to celebrate our tenth anniversary? We have so much to show you; you can discover the stories behind the mill heroes of the 20th century and meet some from the 21st! Of course we havethousands of photographs and documents to look…
If you ever needed a reason for joining the SPAB Mills Section
Well – here it is! The new A4 format for Mill News is combined with impressive and varied content and is a delight to hold and read. There are, as you would expect, a number of interesting articles and shorter pieces, but what immediately strikes you is the professional look of the publication. For those…
Mills Archive on the Archives Hub
The first Mills Archive collection can now be viewed on the Archives Hub. The Archives Hub is a website where archive repositories from across the UK upload their catalogues so that the country’s archival material can be searched in one place. My project over the last two months (funded by the Vodafone World of Difference scheme) has…