Gunpowder mills

Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, workshop and turbine house

EMGC-05-07-47
Item
No date

Part of E M Gardner Collection

Move to EMGC-05-16.

"The manufacture and storage of gunpowder"

JSPB-ART-33
Item
24 October 1874

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Illustration of "The manufacture and storage of gunpowder" on page 393 of "The Graphic".

The Graphic

Album XXVII

JSPB-NEG-27
Subseries
18 March 1961 - 9 July 1961

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Sussex, Wiltshire, Kent. The negative sleeves have been removed from their album, which is missing.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Plan and elevation of waterwheels for copper battery and rolling mill for Mines Royal Mineral and Battery Works

ASHL-NEG-490
Item
September 1954

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Volume II - Mills and machines drawings by John Smeaton, sheet 52v.

"Water Wheel for the Powder Mill at Worcester Park"

ASHL-NEG-489
Item
September 1954

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Volume II - Mills and machines drawings by John Smeaton, sheet 44.

"For Mr Walton's double stack of Powder Mills at Waltham Abbey"

ASHL-NEG-488
Item
September 1954

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Volume II - Mills and machines drawings by John Smeaton, sheet 33v.

"U.S.A. - Delaware Hagley Museum - nr Wilmington"

SASS-04-15
File
October 1980 - 1983

Part of Jon Sass Collection

Envelope containing a postcard of the Hagley Museum (a former cotton mill), and three photographs of the powder mill at the Hagley Museum.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

Miscellaneous UK mill material

SASS-09
Series
1945 - 1997

Part of Jon Sass Collection

The box contains two cross-sectional drawings of North Leverton Windmill; newspaper cutting of Mapledurham Mill's 1977 restoration; 5 reprints of the Transactions of the Newcomen Society by Rex Wailes; copy of "Eksperimentel Arkaeologi" article on Iron Age rotary querns by Anne Bloch Jorgensen; material relating to the Quern Study Group; material on gunpowder mills including "Explosives in History" by Norman Wilkinson (1975) for The Hagley Museum, The Hagley Museum Guide (1976), "Gunpowder Mills Gazetteer" by Glenys Crocker (1988) and "Chilworth Gunpowder" by Glenys Crocker (1984); photocopy from Les Moulins No. 7 "Les Pierres A Moulins etc"; Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Group information; file of SPAB Mills Section members information.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

CROC
Collection
1798-2000s

Photographs and papers relating to watermills and gunpowder production.

Crocker, Alan (1935-2018)

Notebook from Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey

CROC-01-01
Item
1871

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Notebook containing notes on processes carried out at the mills, with two drawings of a retort and one of a densimeter.

Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey

Notebook from Royal Gunpowder Factory, Faversham

CROC-01-02
Item
1798, 1878

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Pages from a 1798 notebook containing text and images relating to the processes carried out at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Faversham. These have been pasted into another notebook, which has the following handwritten title page: "Papers and sketches relating to the manufacture of Gunpowder at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Faversham in the last century. AGH and C Godfrey 23/10/78". The opening two pages are also stamped with "Curtis's and Harvey, Limited".

Godfrey, C

Curtis's and Harvey Limited gunpowder mills, Faversham