Tony Yoward pointed out that these stamps are for sale from the Isle of Man Post office – so I have taken the plunge! They show mills and millers from IOM and the full set is for sale at http://www.iompost.com/stamps/stampissues.xml Unusual to find a set of stamps featuring millers – mills are not uncommon, but I…
Category: Blog
Filter posts by tag:
A Mill Discovery?
John Boucher has pointed to new evidence of Pinxton Mill in Derbyshire. Pictures taken by Hugh Potter show the mill, which burnt down in 1844, depicted on a cup. The mill is not listed in Alan Gifford’s excellent Derbyshire Watermills (£5 from the Midlands Mill Group or from http://shop.millsarchivetrust.org/ ) John writes: These are the only known…
Who were the most interesting?
We all know the names of the great and the good in the mill world – but who were the most interesting mill people? My vote goes to EM Gardner, but you may have better ideas. Miss Gardner managed to persuade Rex Wailes and the powers that be of the importance of watermills. She must…
Fire in the mill?
Author: Philip Hicks How many windmills had interior fireplaces? Do any still exist? Any help much appreciated!
Mills at Harby, Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire
Author: Leslie Cram Information on mills at Harby in Leicestershire can be found on my website. The most useful links arehttp://www.harby.co.uk/directories.htmhttp://www.harby.co.uk/factfile.htmhttp://www.harby.co.uk/mill.htm We have done the best we can to get the information for the photographs correct. Sometimes, particularly for dates, we have made a guess. We will welcome any information that can be sent to…
Transfer of windmill or watermill technology
Author: Torben Jenk What evidence is there for transatlantic technology transfer as far as mill construction is concerned? I live near the former sites of Masters’ Tide Mill (ca. 1718), and Koster’s Wind-Mill and Boulting Mill (ca. 1750), both along the Delaware River in Philadelphia. I am particularly interested in learning about the likely technology…
Any Hampshire Windmill Experts out there?
Did HES Simmons make mistakes? We posted this image on the eBay site recently describing it as Wicor Mill Porchester. The owner of the mill has pointed out it is the mill in his garden and Wicor mill is down the coast The card is stamped with Simmons’ name and labelled Wicor Mill Porchester 4-10-31…
Mystery windmill
A friend of mine found an interesting CD-Rom at a local boot fair which consisted of several hundred photos of old postcards – mostly Kent plus some of Sussex. Not many mills, unfortunately, but I rather liked the attached one which I think is probably High Salvingrton. Different angle from the one shown in the…
Wind farm ‘kills Taiwanese goats’
Author: Cogito The BBC (Asia-Pacific News) reports a large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm. A farmer on an outlying island told the BBC he had lost more than 400 animals after eight giant wind turbines were installed close to his grazing land. The…
History of the Tornado Windmill Co
In the latest set of links to news items, an interesting history of the Tornado Windmill Company in New York State from its founding in 1874 attracted my attention The full article may be found at http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/articles/2009/05/04/news/5311178.txt American windmills are of course referred to in the UK as wind engines, but ours don’t look quite like Tornados!…