Cambridgeshire

"100 foot river"

RHSC-04-016
Item
June 1968

Part of Richard Hills Collection

The New Bedford River, or the Hundred Foot Drain, is a man-made by-pass of the Great Ouse.

1828 datestone, Cattell's smock mill, Willingham

TECH-WILL110
Item
8 May 2010

Part of Technical Information Project

Blythman, Guy

1829 date on crosstree, Six Mile Bottom Mill, Burrough Green

TECH-BG1
Item
17 July 2014

Part of Technical Information Project

Blythman, Guy

47 Church Street, Willingham

JSPB-PHT-01-099
Item
September 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

47 Church Street, Willingham

JSPB-PHT-01-100
Item
September 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

6-Mile Bottom

PARG-MFI-092
File
2012

Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection

Notes and sketches, design statement by Luke Bonwick.

Pargeter, Vincent G (1943-2015), millwright

8, 10, 12 Silver Street, Willingham

JSPB-PHT-01-101
Item
September 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

"A Cambridgeshire landmark"

CUTT-04703
Item
26 August 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'East Anglian Daily Times' about the plans to move Ellington Mill to Madingley Hill, and the history of the mill at Madingley.

"A famous relic"

CUTT-04668
Item
12 June 1932

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Sunday Referee' picturing Bourn Windmill and mentioning its presentation to the Cambridge Preservation Society.

"A little bit of Holland"

CUTT-04685
Item
10 April 1931

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'News Chronicle' picturing a Dutch-esque scene with a windmill and women in sun-bonnets.

A quotation referring to Great Gransden Mill

SHOR-1118918
Item
1973

Part of Michael Short Collection

Pocket No. 15 of Album No.1. A quotation from Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain from Reader's Digest Association in 1973. The quotation describes the owner, William Webb, and how he discovered a book of black magic among his dead brother's belongings.

Short, Michael

"A sail is now pulled up and bolted to the back. The first bolt is being fixed"

REXW-MIL-04-07-17
Item
October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"A windmill for sale"

CUTT-00559
Item
26 November 1960

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Cambridge Daily News' mentioning the inclusion of a renovated windmill on Madingley in the sale of a stud farm.

"A windmill restoration"

CUTT-04697
Item
4 October 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Architect & Building News' about the plan to restore the mill at Madingley.

"A windmill to be re-erected"

CUTT-00563
Item
21 September 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Country Life' of a submission by T. B. Paisley describing the planned re-erection of a windmill on Madingley Hill. The article also includes a brief history of the mill and technical details of the mill's function.