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Free! Large Number of Newcomen Transactions

April 07 2010 by Ron (859 views)
Publications & Watermills & Windmills | 2 comments

The Mills Archive Library has about 50 volumes of the Newcomen Transactions dating from the 1940s. They are available free of charge to the first comer.

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Irish Photographs

March 20 2010 by Ron (845 views)
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The National Library of Ireland has recently released 34,000 of its 630,000 original Irish photographs on its website.

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Cant Post

March 16 2010 by Geoff Holman and Rob Cumming (1167 views)
Mill Groups & News of Mills & Publications & Watermills & Windmills | 1 comment

The Kent Mills Society has just published the first issue of its newsletter. Full of photos and news; it is certainly worth a look!

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Mill Named Brewery of the Year

March 03 2010 by Willioam Hill (981 views)
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Donnington Brewery in the Cotswolds has been named the UK's Brewery of the Year by the Good Pub Guide.

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Knockando Watermill survives

February 03 2010 by Ron (935 views)
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William Hill's recent list of Internet links to mill news includes an uplifiting article in Saga Magazine. In 2004 the mill lost out in the BBC's Restoration programme.

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Speldhurst Mill Planning Application

December 20 2009 by Rob Cumming (1287 views)
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I recently went down to Bradleys Mill, Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, and was alarmed to find it fenced off, as if ready for redevelopment or conversion.

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ONLINE PETITION

December 02 2009 by Jonathan Cook (929 views)
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The Traditional Cornmillers Guild has logged an e-petition with No10 Downing Street to raise our concerns regarding the impact of the proposed fortification of flour with folic acid on traditional milling in the UK.

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Impact on mills of proposed legislation to fortify flour with folic acid

November 24 2009 by Jonathan Cook (1059 views)
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The Traditional Cornmillers' Guild asserts that implementation of proposed legislation may cause wind and water mills to have to cease flour production risking their future viability.

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Kent Mills Society is launched

November 23 2009 by Geoff Holman and Rob Cumming (4622 views)
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There has been a lot interest in the formation of a new group, mainly from postings on the Mills Archive website. We are calling ourselves the Kent Mills Society to differentiate us from the previous Kent group which ceased to …

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Mystery Watermill - possibly Sussex

November 15 2009 by Sue Whitmore (930 views)
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This August I exhibited two paintings of the same mill from different sides painted in the 1930's by my father, Robert Whitmore. They were in a centenary exhibition of his work in his home town of King's Lynn as part …

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