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Fire in Sion Mills

October 31 2010 by Richard Mallett (1146 views)
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The BBC reported (Oct 30) that "Firefighters have brought under control a blaze at the site of a historic mill in a County Tyrone village"

Suffolk Windmill Postcards

October 27 2010 by Ron (1227 views)
Collectors & Windmills | Leave a comment

The Mills Archive has several copies of many Simmons postcards and is starting to sell them on eBay to raise funds. Friends of the Mills Archive get the first chance to buy them at a fixed price and post free. …

Mystery Post Mill

October 20 2010 by Michael Yates (1151 views)
Windmills | 1 comment

Within the last few weeks, I have purchased a windmill photo probably dating from about 1920 that shows a post mill with the remains of a roof mounted fantail. I attach a copy of this photo.

£500 Prize for Research Competition

October 16 2010 by Ron (754 views)
Research & Watermills & Windmills | Leave a comment

As part of its brief “to promote encourage or undertake research and disseminate the useful results of such research” the Mills Archive is launching two research competitions with cash prizes and guarantees of publication. The research must be on a …

3D models of mills on Google Earth

October 15 2010 by Jonathan Green (1069 views)
Publications & Watermills & Windmills | Leave a comment

I just thought you might be interested, I've been working to produce 3D computerised models of watermills and windmills for the 3D layer on Google Earth. They do lose a little detail when optimised by Google, but are still quite …

Starring Role for Nutley Windmill

October 09 2010 by Luke Bonwick (1028 views)
Archive & Frank Gregory Online & Windmills | Leave a comment

Nutley windmill is only one of a series of mills whose restoration is featured in great detail in Frank Gregory Online. Twelve others are detailed in Frank's biography, written and published as part of the project.

Frank Gregory Online Launched

October 06 2010 by Ron (957 views)
Archive & Frank Gregory Online & Watermills & Windmills | 1 comment

Frank Gregory Online has involved the cataloguing and digitisation of more than 30,000 new archival items from the collection of Frank W Gregory. These are now freely available for people to download and view.