The next “autumn” meeting of the SPAB Mills Section is being held on Saturday 26 November outside London to reduce the cost. The venue is the Mills Archive in Reading and the theme (appropriately) is Mill Memories The theme of the day is Mill Memories. The title was selected as it may mean different things to…
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Village pumps anyone?
Author: Dick Williams Whitmore and Binyon may have made their local village pump in Wickham Market (image) – but there are serious doubts. There is nothing in the extensive archive recently catalogued by Chris Wheeler at the Mills Archive. Does anyone have any comment? My interest is village pumps, and I’ve been told that a…
Mill Memories is on its way!
Mill Memories is packed with interesting articles and has now gone to printers. Issue 8 focuses on the work of some of our regular volunteers: David Neaves on Mills in Art, Talbot Green on the 1930s/1940s photographs of HES ‘Sid’ Simmons, and Chris Wheeler on the Peter Dolman Collection and his research into the millwrights…
Millers’ Tales – a Kent Mills Journey
Author: Geoff Holman and Rob Cumming The next meeting of the Kent Mills Society will be at White Mill Sandwich on Saturday 25 June. All are welcome. The meeting is a good chance to look round the mill and museum and hear what is happening to KMS. The programme starts at 2pm and finishes at…
Whitmore & Binyon – The Answer?
Author: Chris Wheeler In my blog from April 1st, I asked the question ‘Whatever happened to Whitmore & Binyon?’, and expressed the hope that after going through Peter’s notes and documents on the subject, I would be in some position to answer that question to a certain degree. Well, for the past month or so…
Moving windmills
Author: Peter Clarke I am researching aspects of the life of the late Nevvar Hickmet who authored a pamphlet on moving windmills. Does anyone have any idea how I could get a copy of this, please – just for reference purposes? Nevvar had the distinction of being the first Cypriot to become a Chartered Accountant…
National Mills Weekend 2011
National Mills Weekend is a celebration of the UK’s milling heritage held on the second weekend of May each year. The weekend is organised by the Mills Section of the SPAB. As many wind and water mills as are able open on one or both of the two days of the weekend. More details are…
Brixton Windmill – details of reopening
Author: Nancy Platts Brixton Windmill will reopen to the public on Monday 2nd May 2011. This photo was taken the day the sails went back on: 7th April 2011, a day that caused huge excitement amongst local people, the media and the Friends of Windmill Gardens. The grand opening will start with a May Day…
Coincidence or Not? – Southwold
Author: Chris Wheeler Further to my blog on Whitmore & Binyon, I have been working hard on Peter’s Collection for the past three weeks. During that time I have come across some interesting discoveries. One of these was a mill that I came across in Peter’s collection recently, namely Smith & Girling’s Steam Mill in…
Mystery watermill
This image is a detail from a painting entitled ‘Fishing near the Mill, Sussex’ painted by Glendening in 1896. Can anyone identify the location and even confirm the mill was located in Sussex? Despite the title of the work it may prove to be a flour mill not in Sussex at all but elsewhere in…