The last entry in our series of blogs about Rex Wailes’ 1929 trip to the USA and Canada. 1929 press cutting from Rex’s files, showing Canadian landscape Unfortunately the last part of Rex’s diary is missing, so his account of his time in Canada is lost. Correspondence from the collection fills in some of the…
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Help save the Rex Wailes Collection
Today we are launching our campaign to raise funds to help preserve and make available the Rex Wailes Collection. Read on to find out more about this significant collection and how you can help to conserve and make the gems in his collection publicly accessible. We received the Rex Wailes Collection after long-term talks with…
National Mills Weekend 2019 – report and pictures!
The sun was shining and the weather was warm last weekend: the perfect weather to celebrate National Mills Weekend! A festival of open-house mills that takes place across the UK every May, National Mills Weekend is run by the SPAB Mills Section, the UK’s national organisation devoted to protecting and promoting traditional windmills and watermills.…
Roundup of the SPAB Mills Section Spring Meeting 2019
On Saturday 9th March, Ron, Mildred and I travelled to London for one of the big events in the Mills Archive calendar: The SPAB Mills Section Spring Meeting. The theme of the day was ‘Pioneers of the Milling World’: slightly different from the usual theme which is more focused on the technical structures and functions…
Thank you for making Saturday’s symposium a success!
We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who came to Saturday’s symposium. For those of you who didn’t attend, read on to discover the highlights and to see photos of the accompanying exhibition! We were delighted to host a joint symposium with the SPAB Mills Section, and it was lovely to…
The SPAB Mills Section Collection completes its journey to the Archive
The material belonging to the SPAB Mills Section Collection, one of our four Foundation Collections, has now been reunited at its new home at the Mills Archive. Back in 2003 the first half of the collection was accessioned in the archive. This half contained collections by various prominent molinologists and members of the Mills Section…
National Mills Weekend 9th – 10th May 2015
Hello everyone! As some of you may already know, National Mills Weekend is coming up. It is on the 9th and 10th of May and is an annual festival celebrating the UK’s milling heritage. Watermills and windmills all over the country that aren’t usually open to the public will be opening their doors to visitors.…
Mills Archive Bookshop
When I came into the Mills Archive today, every surface was covered in books, boxes of books, bags of books and when Ron showed me his car, it too was bursting at the seams with books. This is because on Saturday 7th March, the SPAB are holding a Mills Section all-day meeting involving presentations, updates…
If you ever needed a reason for joining the SPAB Mills Section
Well – here it is! The new A4 format for Mill News is combined with impressive and varied content and is a delight to hold and read. There are, as you would expect, a number of interesting articles and shorter pieces, but what immediately strikes you is the professional look of the publication. For those…
Mills Archive Volunteers support SPAB
Chris Wheeler and Guy Boocock were among eight volunteers helping at the Mills Section Spring Meeting on Traditional Milling in the 21st Century. The Section chairman, Jonathan Cook thanked the Archive staff for all their support. Luke Bonwick and Mildred Cookson handled the local organisation and were ably supported by Audrey Curtis, Elizabeth Trout, Tom…