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Water power in Cumbria

Correspondence with handwritten notes on them; other note; reprint of Keswick Electric Light Co.; water powered Textile Mills of Cumbria; wood turning; waterwheels and mining waterwheels.

Patent for improvement in paddle wheels

Grant of patent, specification and related documents re. improvement in paddle wheels, principally for propelling steam powered vessels, but also capable of being used as mill wheels.

Daubeny, Henry Charles (fl 1842)

Documents relating to Froyle Mill, Hampshire

Contains notes; correspondence between Niall Roberts and Desmond Taylor; two copies the Hampshire Mills Group Newsletter No's 20 and 21; photocopies of a newspaper article about the sale of Froyle Mill, dated 30 May 1963; two technical drawings of the waterwheel by H G A Booth; copy of David Jones' notes on his visit to the mill in 1962.

Newspaper cuttings regarding wind and water mills in Ireland

Six newspaper cuttings regarding the following mills:

  1. Remains of a watermill on Ardoileán [High Island], Ireland.
  2. Guiness windmill, Dublin.
  3. Longford Mill wheel, County Longford.
  4. Corn and truck mills, Knocknagashel, County Kerry.
  5. Croom Mills, County Limerick.
  6. Gants Mill, Somerset

Documents relating to "Three Irish Horizontal Water Wheels"

Contains draft papers, research, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, ephemera and photographs collated by Niall Roberts for his 1990 paper "Three Horizontal Water Wheels", published in the Welsh Mills Society Newsletter No's 20 and 21, April and July 1990. (Copies of the newsletters are available in the library).

Dorset

Report on Dorset watermills, 1974; Denis Sanders' notes on Dorset watermills; Copy of the geneal specification for the construction of Owermoigne Mill, 1850; list of overshot waterwheels in Dorset.

Report and correspondence - Moulin de Griffet

Letters between Nicholls and Cillian de Buitlear concerning the latter's plans to restore Moulin de Griffet, nr. Pleugriffet, Brittany and Nicholls subsequent visit on 18 July 2003.
Nicholls 8-page report (of which there is also a first draft marked, "keep") notes the mill's location and history before recording the condition of its structure and machinery, noting that the "waterwheel is a lovely regional example of good French millwrighting practice". He concludes that "it would be nice to retain the wheel and primary machinery for posterity", but that there was no commercial milling future in the property, recommending conversion to residential use for the bulk of its space. Consultation with local (French) mill groups is recommended.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

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