Mill writing

Kent Outrage

November 11 2009 by John Boucher, Luke Bonwick & Geoff Holman (1160 views)
Kent | 1 comment

John found a fascinating item on agricultrual machinery in Kent being ravaged by roaming bands of men

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New!! Kent Mills Society

November 02 2009 by Rob Cumming & Geoff Holman (1417 views)
Kent & News of Mills & Watermills & Windmills | 1 comment

Following the earlier discussion on Mill Writing and and a very successful meeting at The Black Windmill, Whitstable, we have been encouraged to set up a new Kent Mills Society. The aims of the Society are to raise awareness and …

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VERDI Launch Report

October 01 2009 by Carole Leith (1153 views)
Kent & Events & 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. …

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What about setting up a Kent Mills Group?

April 26 2009 by Ron Cookson (4247 views)
Kent & Research & Watermills & Windmills | 13 comments

Kent has an amazing milling heritage and various Kent mills-related events and research interests have surfaced recently. Surely the time is ripe to consider (re)forming a regional mill group to cover Kent? Certainly the Mills Archive would offer tangible support …

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Does anybody have a picture of the following windmills prior to their loss:-

February 04 2009 by Philip Hicks (1301 views)
Kent & Research & Windmills | 2 comments

Bodsham Green, Elmsted in Kent Old mill at Blean in Kent Lynsted (except for the one by W Coles Finch) in Kent Betsham, Southfleet in Kent The 100 Acre tower mill at Sheerness in Kent Chequer mill or Good Intent …

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Chislet Mill historical research: an update

January 19 2009 by Virginia Silvester (2030 views)
Kent & Mill People & Family History & Research & Windmills | 1 comment

I am pleased to say that my further research has provided some answers about the origins of Chislet mill. The following is a redraft of some of the paragraphs in the notes I sent earlier.

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Windmills in Westerham, Kent, and horizontal mills

January 18 2009 by Rob Cumming (2156 views)
Kent & Research & Windmills | 3 comments

I have for a while been researching the windmills of Westerham in Kent, as part of a much larger study of sites in NW Kent. This is due in part to Coles-Finch making lots of errors over this way. However …

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Preston Mill near Faversham

December 28 2008 by Ron Cookson (1254 views)
Kent & Research & Windmills | Leave a comment

.Vincent Pargeter has commented on the curious sweeps on the smock mill near Faversham shown in the Mills Archive's new Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/millsarchive/ The site and Vincent's note are both of interest!

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Chislet Mill anyone?

November 25 2008 by Virginia Silvester (2308 views)
Kent & Mill People & Family History & Windmills | 2 comments

I have done a lot of research on the early millers at Chislet and this is detailed below. A follow-up item has also been posted see http://www.millsarchivetrust.org/index.php/blogs/more/chislet_mill_historical_research_an_update/

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