Mill Writing

A much awaited new edition

August 05 2010 by RF Cookson (98 views)
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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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Brill Windmill - major new book

July 30 2010 by RF Cookson (111 views)
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Luke Bonwick's new book published this month looks to be a winner! Subtitled "The History, Technology, Conservation and Repair of a 17th-Century Post Mill with a report on the dendrochronology by Martin Bridge" and with 100 A4 pages, packed with …

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The Brick Chimney

July 25 2010 by Sussex Miller (344 views)
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Sussex Mills Group’s 2010 out-of county tour was to Hampshire. The vast majority of participants have been actively involved with mills for many years. Upon arrival at Bursledon Windmill we were informed that due to fire precautions only five persons …

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Mystery Windmill

July 15 2010 by Fred Atkins (220 views)
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A new acquaintance has shown me a number of windmills photographed around the 1930s. A number of them were unidentified, but Luke Bonwick kindly and promptly filled in all the blanks except for one. I wonder if anyone can identify …

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Interested in Windmill Postcards?

July 01 2010 by RF Cookson (282 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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Amazing Price for a piece of paper

June 19 2010 by RF Cookson (287 views)
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An eBay auction has just finished fo a Carte de Visite fetching £265. Can anyone identify it? It was captioned "Victorian SUSSEX MILL FARM + Windmill c.1860s" and a fuller description mentions a couple of possibel sites

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KMS in action

June 18 2010 by Geoff Holman (198 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.

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Mills and Milling in the Herne Bay Area

June 04 2010 by RF Cookson (259 views)
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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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Stodmarsh Rescue - Urgent!!

May 24 2010 by Rob Cumming (248 views)
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Following yesterday's Kent Mills Sociey inaugural meeting, I popped down to Stodmarsh windpump today, to find it in the final throes of collapse

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National Monuments Record archives catalogues now online

April 28 2010 by RF Cookson (256 views)
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The National Monuments Record's archives catalogues, with some images, describing over a million photographs and other archives, are now online at http://www.englishheritagearchives.org.uk.

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