Could Mills benefit from this latest HLF announcement? If you have a project in mind that could have an Olympic connection it is worth reading on! There is now a feature section on the HLF website relating to the Olympics, giving ideas of how projects might fit with the Cultural Olympiad and frequently asked questions…
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Wind turbine blade snaps off UPDATE
Simon Potter and Tim Chapman have helped me update the news item that originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 10 October, reporting that strong winds had broken a blade of a 190 ft wind turbine at Catcliffe near Sheffield. The photograph is copyright Tim Chapman – see http://www.flickr.com/photos/2ubh/2602836715/ a second one can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/2ubh/2603666372/…
Greenwich – early Medieval Tide Mill
Author: David Plunkett “Last summer digging through 3.5m of riverside mud at Greenwich in London, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a huge timber watermill of the 12th century. The wheel, part of which survived, would have been more than 5m across.” The Mill was found while a contractor was preparing the ground for a new…
VERDI Launch Report
Author: Carole Leith As of September 2009 the University of Kent at Canterbury have made available online thousands more images from their resources. The Versatile Digitisation Framework project [VERDI] was funded under the Enriching Digital Resources strand of the JISC Digitisation Programme. Whew… well that’s the official description, but actually the VERDI launch was one…
TIMS has updated its website
Author: Wiard Beek We have updated our Mills & More page to include advice for Europeans see: All about mills….Mill related merchandise) http://www.timsmills.info/Merchandise/Merchandize.htm If you live in Europe, you will get faster service using our bookshop on the Mills Archive site athttp://shop.millsarchivetrust.org/home.php?cat=27 Prices are quoted in Pounds and in Euros. Shipping and handling costs, based on…
Tide Mill Institute Conference 2009
Author: Earl Taylor The Tide Mill Conference for 2009 is scheduled for Friday, Saturday November 6-7, 2009. The venue will be the Dorchester Historical Society’s William Clapp House at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA in the USA The Tide Mill Institute, under the auspices of The Dorchester Historical Society will host the fifth Annual…
Oldland Mill Granary Reprieve
Author: Philip Hicks I was pleased to hear that the Oldland mill granary conversion application was turned down on Thursday night. It was very close and we seemed to be losing until the very end when there was a surprise turnaround. The Oldland Mill Trust publicised the plans in February – see http://www.millsarchivetrust.org/index.php/blogs/more/urgent_response_needed_toplanning_application The owners of…
A Google Book on Mills
Author: David Plunkett This information on a ‘mill book’ published in the USA seems to have excited Bud Warren in the State of Maine, so it may do the same for us in the UK. Search it out and see for yourself. After drooling over what I could find of it on Google Books, I…
Millwrights’ Memories
I was just entering details of this book on our Internet shop, when I came across the chapter “Millwrights’ Memories”. Can someone point me in the direction of other similar sources? The chapter transcribes in some detail interviews recorded between 1969 and 1980. Thirty eight pages are devoted to the reminiscences of: Alf SpainPhilip HancockGordon…
Radio 4 programme featuring the late Ken Major
Ken Major will feature on BBC Radio 4’s “Last Word” this Friday 21 August at 4pm Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and interest from many walks of life, some famous and some less well known.Ken’s…