Building windmills on top of watermills: The Derek Ogden Collection
To celebrate #GivingTuesday, we are highlighting a collection available for adoption. Today’s collection is the Derek Ogden Collection. A millwright for many years, Derek repaired
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To celebrate #GivingTuesday, we are highlighting a collection available for adoption. Today’s collection is the Derek Ogden Collection. A millwright for many years, Derek repaired
This week has seen me draw from one resource that the Archive houses in large numbers for our roller mill history project: namely postcards. A
To celebrate #GivingTuesday, each week we will highlight a collection available for adoption. Collection adopters help secure the safety and availability of all the Archive’s
Marsh Mill in Thornton, Lancashire, is approaching its 223rd birthday. The Friends of Marsh Mill now wish to move the Mill to the next stage
Upminster Windmill’s restoration project is certainly well under way, as these latest photos show! Millwright Willem Dijkstra has started to repair the tower, this includes
At last the new stamp collection of windmills and watermills has been released by Royal Mail. Naturally I dashed out this morning to pick up
These spectacular images of Horsey Windpump in Norfolk being restored were captured earlier this week. Horsey Windpump, owned by the National Trust, is being restored as
If you love windmills, you may well have visited Brill’s 17th-century post mill up on Brill Common. Photographer Tim Andrew has visited it hundreds of
We’ve just received these intriguing snapshots of Upminster Windmill as it undergoes repair and restoration ahead of its reopening. Willem Dijkstra, the Dutch millwright has
As St Patrick’s Day gets underway, I thought I should share with you this article written by a recent Mills Archive volunteer. It shows some
