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…
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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!…
Norse Mills of Lewis – A New Book
Finlay Macleod has completed his book on the Norse mills of Lewis and the publishers hope to have it available at the end of June. Finlay has written an introduction to the book – certainly worth a look! The introduction and full details are available on the Mills Archive bookshop at http://shop.millsarchivetrust.org/ As Finlay is a…
Work on Brill Windmill progressing well
Author: Luke Bonwick Restoration work to this 17th-century windmill began with the removal of the sails in December 2008, and is on target for completion this summer. The mill, which is owned by Buckinghamshire County Council, is undergoing major repair to improve its appearance as a local landmark as well as to safeguard its historic…
What about setting up a Kent Mills Group?
Kent has an amazing milling heritage and various Kent mills-related events and research interests have surfaced recently. Surely the time is ripe to consider (re)forming a regional mill group to cover Kent? Certainly the Mills Archive would offer tangible support to such a new group. Although the previous Kent group was dissolved, the thinking behind…
Barry Mill under Threat
The National Trust for Scotland is threatening to close this attractive mill, one of the last working in Scotland, unless it improves its finances. William Hill’s latest set of Internet news (see related article) highlights the recent announcement. http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1168694?UserKey&UserKey= Friend of the Mills Archive and Barry Mill property manager, Peter Ellis urged people to seize the…
Should you belong to a Mills Group?
Even in my short acquaintance with mills, I have seen Groups come and go, so is there any point to them? Recently the group in Kent (of all places!) folded because no-one would continue the good work carried on for many years by Paul Jarvis and his contemporaries. I think that we need these Groups…
New Issue of Wind and Water Mills
The latest issue (number 28) of the Journal of the Midland Wind and Water Mills Group has just been published. It contains four articles up to the usual high standard of this well-regarded journal.The following counties are featured: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Shropshire Contents:Hampton Loade Forge Top Mill (David Poyner)WS Barron & Son, Mill Engineers of…