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Knepp Windmill, Shipley, West Sussex

August 03 2011 by Richard Symonds (666 views)
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Does anyone know anything about the history of Knepp Windmill, Shipley, West Sussex? Not to be confused with Shipley Mill of Hilaire Belloc fame.

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Yet another fire at Sion Mills

July 30 2011 by Elizabeth Trout (1004 views)
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Avid readers of Mill Writing may reacall an item from Richard Mallett last October about a fire at Sion Mills. Well, now there has been another

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Important New Book from Hampshire Mills Group

July 18 2011 by Ron (515 views)
Mill Groups & Mill People & Family History & Watermills | Leave a comment

Anyone who knows of Tony and Mary Yoward's detailed research on the mills and millers of Hampshire, will be delighted by the appearance of this book, published this month and edited by Ashok Vaidya. Tony and Ashok between them have …

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Whirly Windmills

July 12 2011 by Sussex Miller (648 views)
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A representative of a mill in Sussex has commented that they are having problems with the quality of the 'Whirly Windmills' obtained from a supplier based in London. Often they do not fit together, and do not rotate easily and …

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Mills and Roads

June 28 2011 by Lesley Candal (623 views)
Research | 3 comments

I gather that "in the 1600's it was an offence to build mills next to roads." I wonder if anyone can help me identify where this information comes from?

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Windmills on stamps

June 23 2011 by Fred Atkins (757 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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SPAB November Meeting on Mill Memories

June 16 2011 by Ron (494 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 (802 views)
Archive & Research | Leave a comment

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 (540 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 (575 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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