Some of you may have had an email to tell you about this already, but if you’re not on our mailing list, consider this your official invitation to take part in the Mills Archive 2018 Website Survey! It’s a short, easy questionnaire which will only take about 5 minutes of your time. The Mills Archive…
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NEW: modern milling webpages – let us know what you think!
We are pleased to announce that the new modern milling webpages are now live on the Mills Archive website and available for public viewing. These pages are a part of the Mills Archive project to create the world’s first roller flour mill archive and library. This project has been funded by a grant from the…
New webpage teaser (and Fred the Flour Grader)
So I have come to the end of my initial three months interning at the Mills Archive. However, this is not goodbye, as I will be back in November to do further work on the roller mill project. This week has seen an exciting development in the project as the webpages are now beginning to…
Oldland Mill archive online
The archives of Oldland Windmill, Keymer, have now been made available online. Oldland’s archive collection has been sorted, listed and digitised by mill archivist Peter Sheppard and is now housed at the Mills Archive. Minutes of the mill committee from the 1920s-30s and 1980s-90s and correspondence and documents from the 1970s-1990s are available to view on…
Union Mill, Cranbrook archive online
The archives of Union Mill in Cranbrook, Kent, collected by the late Wynn Tremenheere, are now available online. The smock mill in Cranbrook was built in 1814 and was owned and worked by the Russell family from 1832 to 1958. It is now a grade I listed visitor attraction maintained by the Cranbrook Windmill Association.…
The Mills Archive in ‘Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine!’
The June issue of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine contains a double-page spread featuring an item from the Michael French Collection ‘Gem from the Archive’ is one of the magazine’s monthly features. In it Mildred discusses one of her favourite records from our rich collections, in this case the Michael French Collection. The document is…
Website survey results
Thanks to those who took part in our survey a while ago. The results are now in! The survey has given us lots to think about. It seems most users find our site very useful, but opinions are divided over how easy it is to use. Many people made suggestions for possible improvements and we…
Sacrewell hits the small screen in Victorian Bakers
Author: Megan Allen See Sacrewell Mill like you’ve never seen it before in a new series that hits BBC Two on 5 January. In the first episode of Victorian Bakers, which was filmed at Sacrewell Mill near Peterborough, four professional bakers leave their businesses behind to find out how the early Victorians got their daily…
Oldland Windmill powered by steam once more
Hello everyone! I wanted to do a big shout out and congratulations today to our Friends at Oldland Windmill who have been featured in Vintage Spirit magazine for their unique steam powered windmill (you can see the steam engine in this photo, which was kindly provided by the team at Oldland). It is great to…
Mills Archive is featured on the National Archives website!
The Mills Archive is currently featured both in the news and in the case study section of the National Archives’ website. Read on to find out why… Recently we went live with a brand new online catalogue – in addition to our new website – which uses open-source software called AtoM or “Access to Memory”…