With the gem page beginning to take shape, I thought I would share with you another peek at what I have been working on. This week I was let loose into the outside world on a small trip, although it was nothing compared to the tales of intrepid expeditions I have been discovering in the…
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Be a Mills Detective: May edition
Can you help us identify these archive photos of watermill sites? Unfortunately, many of these are left unidentified or misidentified for various reasons. We need some keen eyes to help us put names and locations to these mill sites. Last month we published a selection of unidentified Welsh mill photos for you to help us identify. Several…
International Women’s Day: a campaigner for mills and women’s rights…
Since International Women’s Day is now upon us, it seems apt to pay homage to some of the heroines of the mill world. And – as it turns out – one of our collectors was once a suffragette. This revelation was discovered only recently by our Information Manager Elizabeth. Apparently the late E M Gardner,…
Goodbye Andrew
Volunteer Andrew Munro has left us after two years of hard work on the E M Gardner collection. Andrew joined us in 2014 to gain work experience with archives. For most of his time here he has been working throught the collection of notes and photographs created by E M Gardner, a leading watermill researcher…