Mill writing

How exciting! How brave!

November 19 2011 by Ron (332 views)
Collectors & Watermills | Leave a comment

These words open an enthralling and entertaining account of how three families rescued a listed, derelict mill that was being pulled into the river.

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Time to decide

November 14 2011 by Ron (296 views)
Collectors & Mills outside the UK & Watermills & Windmills | Leave a comment

If you don't know what you really want for Christmas, why not choose one of the carefully selected items in the "Suitable Presents" section of the Mills Archive Bookshop?

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Any calendars?

November 10 2011 by Ron (298 views)
Collectors & Watermills & Windmills | Leave a comment

A correspondent has asked if anyone is aware of any windmill calendars available for 2012

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Yorkshire Windmills Through Time

October 25 2011 by Ron (396 views)
Collectors & Publications & Windmills | 1 comment

Just published and available from the Mills Archive shop, this new book is attractive and well-produced

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Windmills on stamps

June 23 2011 by Fred Atkins (607 views)
Collectors & Research & Windmills | 1 comment

As you probably know, people out there are attempting to augment their income by printing spurious stamps (known as cinderellas) purporting to be issued by various Russian and African states on a variety of subjects, for example windmills and watermills. …

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Peter Dolman Collection gets full-time attention

March 19 2011 by Chris Wheeler (652 views)
Collectors & Archive & Peter Dolman | 2 comments

The Mills Archive welcomes Chris Wheeler, seen here wiith established volunteers Talbot Green and Colin Mitchell. He will be following in the footsteps of Ken Kirsopp and Suzy Talbot by working on Peter's huge collection.

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Suffolk Windmill Postcards

October 27 2010 by Ron (656 views)
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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. …

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Interested in Windmill Postcards?

July 01 2010 by Ron (1007 views)
Collectors & Windmills | 1 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. …

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New Book on the arrival of a steam mill

June 24 2010 by Ron (674 views)
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An interesting new approach to a mill book is taken by Chris Mesely in Millers and Methodists

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Mills and Milling in the Herne Bay Area

June 04 2010 by Ron (731 views)
Kent & Collectors & Publications & Windmills | Leave a comment

The Friends of Herne Mill and the Herne Bay Historical Society have just published an impressive update of Harold Gough's 1986 book on the mills of Herne Bay.

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