This disturbing news has been doing the rounds Below the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland outlines the threat to post 1700 archaeology and heritage if their statutory protection is removed. Mills are obviously going to lose their protection so we should react and let the Irish Government know this is of international concern. Thanks to…
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2011 Tide Mill Conference
Author: John Goff; Earl Taylor; Bud Warren Last year the Tide Mill Institute conference was held in Arlington, rather than in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to take advantage of the opportunity to see the workings of a mill (even it is a fresh?water mill). This year our conference will be held in Maine! For a number of…
Research Prize: Only 3 months to go
The deadline to choose and submit your title for the first Mills Archive Research Competition is 1 December this year – but you don’t need to wait! There are two competitions this year: one for £500 and one for £50 (details below). As part of its brief “to promote encourage or undertake research and disseminate…
Women millers?
As a volunteer at the Mills Archive, I am currently working on a social history project regarding the role of women in the milling industry. Do you have any information or comments? So far I have focused largely on the nineteenth century, and have been using the books held at the Archive alongside the online…
Knepp Windmill, Shipley, West Sussex
Author: Richard Symonds Does anyone know anything about the history of Knepp Windmill, Shipley, West Sussex? Not to be confused with Shipley Mill of Hilaire Belloc fame. In 1754, John Wicker bought Knepp and immediately commissioned James Crow to prepare a detailed survey of the estate. This invaluable map still hangs in the Estate Office…
Yet another fire at Sion Mills
Avid readers of Mill Writing may recall an item from Richard Mallett last October about a fire at Sion Mills. Well, now there has been another. The latest fire is described in the Belfast Telegraph: “Strabane Mill damaged by Fire”. The listed Herdman’s Mill at Sion’s Mill, Strabane has been damaged by fire in the…
Important New Book from Hampshire Mills Group
Anyone who knows of Tony and Mary Yoward’s detailed research on the mills and millers of Hampshire, will be delighted by the appearance of this book, published this month and edited by Ashok Vaidya. Tony and Ashok between them have created a valuable reference source for mills and family historians. All proceeds go to the…
Whirly Windmills
Author: Sussex Miller A representative of a mill in Sussex has commented that they are having problems with the quality of the ‘Whirly Windmills’ obtained from a supplier based in London. Often they do not fit together, and do not rotate easily and they are finding that about two out of a box of twelve…
Mills and Roads
Author: Lesley Candal I gather that “in the 1600’s it was an offence to build mills next to roads.” I wonder if anyone can help me identify where this information comes from? Hello, I have just found your wonderful website while I was researching 2 windmills from Lympsham in Somerset. We are a small local…
Windmills on stamps
As you probably know, people out there are attempting to augment their income by printing spurious stamps (known as cinderellas) purporting to be issued by various Russian and African states on a variety of subjects, for example windmills and watermills. I have scanned copies of literally hundreds of these. These sheetlets do no harm as…