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Roller flour mill collections

At the Mills Archive we have a wide range of interests covering a variety of subjects connected to mills and...

A typical country miller 

A few weeks ago, we featured some of the writing of John Munnings (1916-1987) with his memories about growing up...

Using our Mills Database

The database of mills on our website contains more than 12,000 entries, and can be searched in a variety of ways....

The Old Miller of Sidestrand and Poppyland

This article first appeared on our blog in March 2019. Whilst recording the many histories of millers in our collections,...

Feeding the World. Cereal products: The early medieval period, c.AD500 to the present day  

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics and  Chapter 14 is...

The millwright and the king

Stephen Buckland George Packham was an English miller and millwright who made his name in France in the early 19th...

Holman Bros, millwrights of Canterbury

In the last few months this newsletter has featured several articles about the Montefiore Windmill in Jerusalem, which was built...

Using our Images and Documents catalogue

One of the main ways we provide access to our archives is through our images and documents catalogue, which you...

John Munnings: memories of watermilling

John Munnings (1916-1987) was the nephew of the famous artist Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959), and like his uncle before him...

The mills built on bones delivered by a Wolf(e)

Elizabeth Trout This article was originally published in our blog on 31 October 2019. Last week, Tom, one of our...

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