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Important New Book from Hampshire Mills Group

July 18 2011 by Ron (410 views)
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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 …

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

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.

SPAB Mill Repair Fund Appeal

November 29 2010 by Mildred (905 views)
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The SPAB Mills Section has just launched an appeal for contributions to its Mill Repair Fund. Pointing out that a small amount of money can go a long way to help keep a mill standing, we are asking members and …

Working on Kent Mills

November 07 2010 by Geoff Holman (616 views)
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Vincent Pargeter is speaking on "Working on Kent MIlls" and Arthur Percival on "The Gunpowder Industry" at the Kent Mills Society Meeting in Faversham, starting at 2pm on Saturday 20 November. Entry is free so do come and join us! …

National Lottery Share for Heritage consultation closes on 21 August 2010

August 09 2010 by Ron (655 views)
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It sounds as though more Lottery money will be coming to heritage projects! This is a welcome reversal of the sharp decline in recent years. You can add your voice to a public consultation that ends on 21 August, so …

A Threat to all our Mill Groups

July 06 2010 by Ron (605 views)
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It will only be a few years before members of mill groups will no longer be able to pay their subscriptions by cheque! Whatever alternatives are introduced will cause problems of one sort or another.

KMS in action

June 18 2010 by Geoff Holman (751 views)
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On 30 May 2010, a working party from the Kent Mills Society, with permission from the owner, went to the site of the Stodmarsh windpump and managed to extract some remains from the dyke.