Hertfordshire

"100-k.W. Wind-driven Electric Generator"

CUTT-04068
Item
10 July 1953

Article in 'The Machinery Market' magazine about the Enfield Cables project for an electricity generator at Prae Wood, St. Albans, which it is hoped will produce 100 kW.

1881 census information on Hill family

FHIS-1128594
File
21 August 2008

Part of Family History Communications

Information from the 1881 England census on three members of the Hill family: George Hill, miller, from Wickham (Hamps), Claudius Hill, retired miller and farmer from Cookham (Berks), and Albert Hill, farmer living at Lemsford Mill, Hatfield (Herts).

"A dip into the millstream past"

CUTT-03997
Item
11 September 1975

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Buckinghamshire Advertiser & County Gazette' celebrating how many watermills there used to be in the county and the diverse used the survivors have been put to now.

"A medieval post windmill"

CUTT-01140
Item
02 December 1933

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Herts and Essex Observer' describing the archaeological site at Sandon Mount of an ancient windmill led by Mr. W. Percival Westell. The article also contains details of the find, as well as a brief history of windmills in Hertfordshire.

"A mill on the rib"

CUTT-01134
Item
1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'The Field' containing two photographs of the Paper Mill at Standon, which show the conversion of the land on which the mill stood into a house 90 years later.

"A Typical Country Mill on the Simon System"

DUFF-SBK-103
Item
nd

Part of Duffield Family Collection

Cutting showing New Barnes Mill and describing its Simon System.

Unknown publisher

"A Windfall for the old MIll"

CUTT-04365b
Item
27 July 1967

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in 'The Evening News' that money has been found to allow the Herts Building Preservation Trust to treat the old windmill at Cromer, near Buntingford, for woodworm infestation.

Abbey Mill, St Albans

DHJC-P-033
Item
July 1954

Part of David H Jones Collection

Jones, David H (1926-2023)

Abbey Mill, St Albans

EMGC-04-24-01
Item
1880s - 1960s (Undated)

Part of E M Gardner Collection

The first item of this Sub - Series is a printed reproduction of a painting of Abbey Mill , a watermill situated in the town of St Albans. The image is undated.

Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)

Aerial view of Heygate's Mill, Tring

SMDN-2018.0055-01
Item
5 April 1968

Part of Small Donations

Franks, Gordon, photographer

Aerial view of Heygate's Mill, Tring

SMDN-2018.0055-02
Item
5 April 1968

Part of Small Donations

Franks, Gordon, photographer

Aerial view of Heygate's Mill, Tring

SMDN-2018.0055-03
Item
5 April 1968

Part of Small Donations

Franks, Gordon, photographer

Album of mill photographs, 1963

JKMC-FOL-220
File
1963

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

Album of photographs windmills in England

JSPB-ALB-21
File
1959 - 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Photographs taken from negatives created by Peter Pearce and B. R. Billings. They appear to have been in the possession of SPAB at the time of Stephen developing them. Peter Pearce's photographs of predominantly Sussex, with some in Essex, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey, taken between 1925 and 1936. B. R. Billings' photographs were taken between 1913 and 1920.

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

Album X