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- c.1800
Part of Reading Central Library Images
The print was engraved for "The Westminster Magazine". Shown is the mill to the left, the mill stream in the foreground, and the River Thames is in the background.
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Part of Reading Central Library Images
The print was engraved for "The Westminster Magazine". Shown is the mill to the left, the mill stream in the foreground, and the River Thames is in the background.
Part of Owen Ward Collection
Notes, photocopies and correspondence relating to mills on the river Frome in Bristol. Includes 1796-8 land tax assessments for Hambrook, mentioning Cleeve Mill.
Ward, Owen
Mortgage of a windmill and a watermill at Bridlington
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".
Assignment of rights relating to land at "Birkle with Bamford" as security for a loan.
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.
Notebook from Royal Gunpowder Factory, Faversham
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
Sleaford Windmill Exterior-working
Part of Peter Dolman Collection
Copy by P. Dolman (LMA) of Sleaford windmill when in working order. Photograph of engraving.
Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Correspondence and notes on Kentish windmills.
Release in fee of meadow or pasture at Beckery Mill, Glastonbury to Martha Phippen
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....".
Part of Roy Gregory Collection
Later copy of Martha Phippen's last will and testament which references Beckery Mill, Glastonbury
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...."
Photograph of painting, Port Hall Mill, Brighton
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
Poor painting (watercolour?) showing post mill apparently in w/o, with distinguished-looking house on right. Mill has tailpole fan and weight wheel and box on tail
Sussex: Brighton/Eastbourne region
Unknown photographer
Photograph of engraving, Castle Mound Mill, Eye
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
Captioned "View of Eye in the olden time 1818": shows church with open-trestle post mill on mound in background.
Unknown photographer
Port Hall Mill, Brighton, photograph of watercolour(?)
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
Showing post mill with shuttered sails, ladder fan and weight wheel/box on tail of buck; second mill, type indeterminate, on horizon.
Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher
Scrapbook of etchings and photographs
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
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.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Scrapbook of cuttings, etchings and postcards
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
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.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Coloured etching of Dulwich Common Post Mill by Samuel Prout.
Prout, Samuel (1783 - 1852), engraver
"Chilworth Paper Mills + St. Martha's Surrey"
Prosser, Henry (1816-1888), artist
Old Dock Mill (Society Mill), Portsmouth
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
This print shows the Society Mill, also known as Old Dock Mill, Portsmouth. This was built in 1798 and demolished in 1867. In 1816 the Dock Mill was built to replace it while the structure remained. The old mill was topped by a 20 foot statue of the goddess Ceres and this may be seen in the picture.
Unknown artist