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Mill Writing

2012 Olympics and Heritage

October 22 2009 by Ron Cookson (222 views)
Watermills &Windmills | Leave a comment

Could Mills benefit from this latest HLF announcment? If you have a project in mind that could have an Olympic connection it is worth reading on!

Wind turbine blade snaps off UPDATE

October 10 2009 by Ron Cookson (522 views)
Electricity Generation &Windmills | Leave a comment

Simon Potter and Tim Chapman have helped me update the news item that originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 10 October, reporting that strong winds had broken a blade of a 190 ft wind turbine at Catcliffe near …

Greenwich – early Medieval Tide Mill

October 06 2009 by David Plunkett (288 views)
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“Last summer digging through 3.5m of riverside mud at Greenwich in London, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a huge timber watermill of the 12th century. The wheel, part of which survived, would have been more than 5m across."

VERDI Launch Report

October 01 2009 by Carole Leith (416 views)
Kent Millers' Tales &Meetings &Windmills | 4 Comments

As from September 2009 the University of Kent at Canterbury have made available online thousands more images from their resources. The Versatile Digitisation Framework project [VERDI] was funded under the Enriching Digital Resources strand of the JISC Digitisation Progamme. …

TIMS has updated its website

September 23 2009 by Wiard Beek (342 views)
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We have updated our Mills & More page to include advice for Europeans see: All about mills....Mill related merchandise) http://www.timsmills.info/Merchandise/Merchandize.htm

Tide Mill Institute Conference 2009

September 20 2009 by Earl Taylor (457 views)
Electricity Generation &Mills outside the UK &Watermills | Leave a comment

The Tide Mill Conference for 2009 is scheduled for Friday, Saturday November 6-7, 2009. The venue will be the Dorchester Historical Society's William Clapp House at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA in the USA

Oldland Mill Granary Reprieve

September 12 2009 by Philip Hicks (344 views)
Windmills | Leave a comment

I was pleased to hear that the Oldland mill granary conversion application was turned down on Thursday night. It was very close and we seemed to be losing until the very end when there was a surprise turn around. …

A Google Book on Mills

September 01 2009 by David Plunkett (470 views)
Publications | 1 Comment

This information on a 'Mill book' published in USA seems to have excited Bud Warren in the State of Maine, so it may do the same for us in UK. Search it out and see for yourself here in the …

Millwrights’ Memories

August 24 2009 by Ron Cookson (440 views)
Mill People & Family History | 1 Comment

I was just entering details of this book on our Internet shop, when I came across the chapter "Millwrights' Memories". Can someone point me in the direction of other similar sources?