Subseries FWGC-1116627 - FWG 03210-03219 Prints

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FWGC-1116627

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FWG 03210-03219 Prints

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  • 2010 (Creation)

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1 document

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(1917-1998)

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Frank W Gregory was widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on mills and milling in the UK. He was brought up in Brighton and developed a fascination for vernacular buildings, especially windmills, whilst on childhood rambles with his family in the 1920s. This together with an interest in the geology and industrial archaeology of Sussex and the South Downs, developed in his teens, motivated his lifelong quest to discover as much as possible about windmills and watermills and their place in manufacturing and production within the rural economy.

A woodwork teacher by profession, Frank travelled widely, visiting, recording, surveying and studying mills in Sussex and later throughout the UK and abroad, mostly for his own pleasure. After the war he carried out mill surveys for local authorities and also for the SPAB Mills Section, which he had joined in 1948. As a keen member of The International Molinological Society he went on many foreign mill tours and his reputation became known worldwide.

Frank used his practical skills and experience as a woodwork teacher to teach himself the craft and practice of a millwright, and soon became the acknowledged expert on traditional methods of mill restoration and conservation. The first Sussex windmill he helped to restore was Nutley Post Mill in the Ashdown Forest, and he went on to help in the restorations of Polegate, Shipley, High Salvington, Jill Mill at Clayton and Park Watermill at Bateman

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Index of ten packets of 4" x 6" photographic prints from the Frank Gregory Collection. Each packet contains up to 40 prints, 75% of which have a mill-related subject. The subjects of the photographs have been identified and dated wherever possible. Each print has been digitised and is available via the Mills Archive by quoting the reference numbers on the relevant line of the spreadsheet.

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This material is held by the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum; please contact them to consult it.

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  • Shelf: FWG 03210