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Niall Roberts Collection File
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Bollee Windpump

Correspondence about a Bollee windpump seen in France by Niall, and photographs of the Bollee Wind Turbine at Cowfield, Sussex.

Photographs

Photographs of millstones in the garden of Mells Manor, Somerset; Bembridge windmill; Babicev Mlin na Muri in Slovenia

Boat mills

Information on boat mills, in particular the Babicev Mlin na Muri in Slovenia. Includes a flour bag depicting the mill.

Obituaries

Photograph of Rex Wailes, Times obitiuary for Rex Wailes, obituaries for Frank Gregory, obituary for Niall Roberts.

Roberts family

Miscellaneous mill information

Photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, notes and articles about sawmills; a Russian inverted watermill; wind turbines; Cougnaguet Hortz watermill; Polish watermill and Wheatley mill; Islamic mills; French windmill restoration; Bembridge Windmill; Cowfield 'Bollee' wind engine; Dorset watermills survey 1989; Carshalton House pumping wheel; Gomshall watermill; Shalford watermill; Cobham watermill and Holgate Windmill; a Vitruvian mill; Ockham watermill; Guildford watermills; Painshill Park pumping mill; Fountains Abbey Mill; Crabble Mill; Watermills and OS Maps; Indian pestle and mortar.

Research and correspondence relating to French mills

Two folders of documents relating to research on French mills.
Folder 1: Contains copies of five papers by Niall Roberts: "Windmills in France: Some Comments on Berton Sails"; "Some More European Mills"; "Une Excursion Molinologique en France"; "Some Eucharistic Mills"; "The Berne Münster Watermill Window". Correspondence in French; ephemera; hand drawings; illustrations; documents on Daudet's Mill.
Folder 2: Contains photocopies of papers by Jean Bruggeman; ephemera and other documents relating to French mills.

"23 - Hungary TIMS Sym"

"Berton Sails; Mill Recording; Burr Assembly".
Contains correspondence between Niall Roberts and Michael Harverson, Norman Plastow, Owen Ward; Miall's opening speech on Christian Porcher; Niall's comments on French Burrstone Assembly; a copy of "The Sèvres Service des Arts Industriels" by Derek A Long.

"12 - Berton Sails - Correspondence with M. Coussonneau"

Contains correspondence, written in French, between Niall Roberts and Christian Cussonneau including a letter with nine enclosures of an 1839 report on "Nouvelle roue à vent" and eight drawings of sails; a copy of Association Amis des Moulins D'Anjou Bulletin No 42; and a drawing by M. Enguehard of a mill wheel.

Postcards

Postcards collected by/sent to Niall Roberts, and some photos.

Roberts, Niall (1922-2010), mill enthusiast

Suffolk

Photographs of Suffolk watermills and Ramsey Post Mill. Mastercopy of "Some Suffolk Mills" published in Suffolk Mills Group newsletter No 42 November 1988

"English Windmills & Windmilling"

The Conference Folder for the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings Annual Weekend Conference 1977. Contains information on millwrights including biographical information on Vincent Pargeter and Rex Wailes, Ken Major, Bill Heathershaw of North Leverton Mill, and information on Danzey Green Mill, Norton Lindsey Mill, Chestern Mill, Harbury Mill, Berkswell Mill and Saxon Mill, Guy's Cliffe.

South Africa

Photocopies of Niall Roberts' "Two South African Windmills" and "Some South African Watermills". Two photographs of women in Lesotho using saddle querns.

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