Gunpowder mills

Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, workshop and turbine house

EMGC-05-07-47
Item
No date

Move to EMGC-05-16.

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

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.

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

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

REXW-IND-06-030
File
17 April 1917 - 22 February 1918

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Information on the gunpowder mill including attached photographs of machinery.

Part 3 SW England

CROC-25535
Item
2006-2010

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Digital file of research notes, arranged by county and location.

Crocker, Glenys

"Scene of the powder explosion at the Oare Works, near Faversham"

MCFC-ENG-065
Item
13 April 1867

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

The Illustrated London News

RCHME site reports on Waltham Abbey gunpowder mills

CROC-06
File
1993

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England

Design for Mr Walton's double stack of Powder Mills at Waltham Abbey

ASHL-25-011
Item
Mid 18th century

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century.
See also SPAB-GPN-E-006 for a lantern slide of the same drawing.

Smeaton, John (1724-1792), engineer

"The Gunpowder Mills at Hounslow"

CROC-02-07
Item
April 1984

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Over, Luke

"The sporting powder industry of Great Britain III - The Hounslow powder factory"

CROC-02-08
Item
1994 (photocopy of article from 16 March 1896)

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Photocopy of article.

The Sporting Goods Review

"Gunpowder Mills"

CROC-02-05
Item
1980s

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Contents cover the gunpowder mills on the Hogsmill River, in the Lake District, Chart and Oare Mills at Faversham, on the River Medway at Tonbridge, at Chilworth on the Tillingbourne, at Godstone.

Fleming, Kenneth Betram, photographer

"24 - Snuff/G-powder mills"

ROBE-1130667
File
1996

Part of Niall Roberts Collection

Contains a copy of the Gunpowder Mills Study Group Newsletter 18, February 1996; handout containing various mills in Lancashire and Cumbria; photocopy of a newspaper article about Waltham Abbey Gunpowder mill.