Notes, photocopies and correspondence relating to mills on the river Frome in Bristol. Includes 1796-8 land tax assessments for Hambrook, mentioning Cleeve Mill.

One vellum sheet (approximately 69 cm x 88 cm), signed and sealed by all four parties. The document records the grant of a mortgage by Thomas Bradley, miller, to Thomas Robinson, gentleman, as trustee for Rebecca Bradley, spinster and Thomas Smith, yeoman, relating to a "wind corn mill" at Bridlington and a "water corn mill" at Hilderthorp, both properties being "near the high road leading from Bridlington Quay to Bessingby on or towards the south".

Three sheets of vellum measuring approximately 70 cm x 86 cm comprising an assignment of land as security for a loan of £430 made by Benjamin Hay (cordwainer of Shepherd's Mill, Spotland, Rochdale) to Robert [K]ay and James Bentley. Amongst the parties are John and Susan Butterworth (Susan being the widow of John Ramsbottom) who both sign by their marks. John Butterworth is described as a woollen weaver of Rochdale.

Correspondence and notes on Kentish windmills.

One sheet of vellum measuring approximately 77 cm x 60 cm under which six acres of meadow or pasture are released to Martha Phippen by John Tucker and John Ivie in consideration for £400. The land is described as, "all those six acres of meadow or pasture ground (be the same more or less).... and lying at a certain place called Bridges alias Brides adjoining to a Mill commonly called or known by the name of Beckary Mill having the mill stream on the south side thereof....".

5 paper pages (watermarked 1812) measuring 42 cm x 33 cm comprising a copy of Martha Phippen's last will and testament (made 10 February 1799). Under the will, Martha Phippen makes various bequests, chief of which is the bequest to her grandson, George Reeve, of Beckary Mill a "water grist mill" which she had "lately" contracted to purchase from Mr John May and "six acres of pasture ground at Brides near Beckary Mill aforesaid which I lately purchased in fee of Mr John Ivie...."

Scrapbook of etchings of mills in England and Europe from encyclopedias and books, including pages from "The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art". Two photographs by the Folkestone Herald and Gazette of Horn Street Mill being demolished. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 55.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings on mills, along with some etchings. Some postcards remain. 1 photograph of an Egyptian noria wheel. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 56. The items in this scrapbook have lost their adhesive to the pages and are loose.