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SPAB November Meeting on Mill Memories

June 16 2011 by Ron (420 views)
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The next "autumn" meeting of the SPAB Mills Section is being held on Saturday 26 November outside London to reduce the cost. The venue is the Mills Archive in Reading and the theme (appropriately) is Mill Memories

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Village pumps anyone?

June 11 2011 by Dick Williams (673 views)
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Whitmore and Binyon may have made thier local village pump in Wickham Market (image) - but there are serious doubts. There is nothing in the extensive archive recently catalogued by Chris Wheeler at the Mills Archive. Does anyone have any …

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Mill Memories is on its way!

June 02 2011 by Ron (463 views)
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Mill Memories is packed with interesting articles and has now gone to printers. Issue 8 focuses on the work of some of our regular volunteers: David Neaves on Mills in Art, Talbot Green on the 1930s/1940s photographs of HES ‘Sid’ …

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Millers’ Tales - a Kent Mills Journey

May 21 2011 by Geoff Holman and Rob Cumming (492 views)
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The next meeting of the Kent Mills Society will be at White Mill Sandwich on Saturday 25 June. All are welcome.

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Whitmore & Binyon – The Answer?

May 14 2011 by Chris Wheeler (545 views)
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In my blog from April 1st, I asked the question ‘Whatever happened to Whitmore & Binyon?’, and expressed the hope that after going through Peter’s notes and documents on the subject, I would be in some position to answer that …

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Moving Windmills

May 13 2011 by Peter Clarke (928 views)
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I am researching aspects of the life of the late Nevvar Hickmet who he authored a pamphlet on moving windmills. Does anyone have any idea how I could get a copy of this, please - just for reference purposes? …

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National Mills Weekend 2011

May 02 2011 by Ron (874 views)
Events & Watermills & Windmills | 1 comment

National Mills Weekend is a celebration of the UK's milling heritage held on the second weekend of May each year. The weekend is organised by the Mills Section of the SPAB. As many wind and water mills as are able …

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Brixton Windmill - details of reopening

April 26 2011 by Nancy Platts (877 views)
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Brixton Windmill will reopen to the public on Monday 2nd May 2011. This photo was taken the day the sails went back on - 7th April 2011. A day that caused huge excitement amongst local people, the media and the …

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Coincidence or Not? – Southwold

April 24 2011 by Chris Wheeler (466 views)
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Further to my blog on Whitmore & Binyon, I have been working hard on Peter’s Collection for the past three weeks. During that time I have come across some interesting discoveries. One of these was a mill that I came …

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Mystery watermill

April 22 2011 by Ron (825 views)
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This image is a detail from a painting entitled 'Fishing near the Mill, Sussex' painted by Glendening in 1896. Can anyone identify the location and even confirm the mill was located in Sussex?

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