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Free TIMS Calendar

December 24 2011 by Ron (177 views)
Publications & Mills outside the UK & TIMS | Leave a comment

TIMS has announced that its 2012 calendar is available as a free download from its home page.

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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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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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Moving Windmills

May 13 2011 by Peter Clarke (928 views)
Publications & Windmills | 2 comments

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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Mill Spies Stole Secrets

January 25 2011 by Ron (561 views)
Publications & Mills outside the UK & TIMS | 2 comments

OK, it was in the early 19th century, but this fascinating story of early industrial espionage is worth reading! Derek Ogden and Geral Bost explain how American milling secrets were taken back to Germany to the benefit of European mills. …

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Hallam Ashley Book

November 17 2010 by Jim Woodward-Nutt (645 views)
Mill People & Family History & Publications & Windmills | Leave a comment

It has just occurred to me that I didn't see the new book of Hallam Ashley photographs on the Mills Archive bookstall on Saturday

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Gone with the Wind; Windmills and those around Tring

November 01 2010 by Ron (649 views)
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A new book on windmills in this part of the Hertfordshire is a welcome arrival, especially as it has 202 pages and is fully illustrated

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3D models of mills on Google Earth

October 15 2010 by Jonathan Green (567 views)
Publications & Watermills & Windmills | Leave a comment

I just thought you might be interested, I've been working to produce 3D computerised models of watermills and windmills for the 3D layer on Google Earth. They do lose a little detail when optimised by Google, but are still quite …

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Another Excellent Windmill Book

September 25 2010 by Ron (556 views)
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This has been a good summer for windmill books in the UK! The latest by Mike Norrey, launched in September maintains the high standard

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A much awaited new edition

August 05 2010 by Ron (707 views)
Publications & Windmills | Leave a comment

The original version of Guise and Lees' book on Anglesey was so successful, the authors wished they had published a longer print run. When they discovered a copy of the book, secondhand on the Internet for £100, they thought the …

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