Items relating to the history of Whitley Bridge Mill, owned by John Croysdale and Sons and then by James Bowman and Sons Ltd. Includes ledgers, plans and drawings, correspondence and photos. Also a large number of digital images of the mill taken by Sharon Burton before its closure.
Manuscripts, research notes, documents and photographs relating to UK wind and watermills, principally Buckinghamshire. Incorporates the collection of Stanley Freese, which was bequeathed to James Venn and added to by him.
Prints, negatives and 35mm slides of Kent windmills relating to Peter Cobley's time as conservation architect for Kent County Council. Drawings of Herne mill.
Ledgers, photographs and documents relating to the Over family of millers. Includes items relating to Sandhurst, Sindlesham, Sonning and Sandford mills.
Material relating to the history of Oldland Mill, Keymer. Includes: Electronic copy of 1927-33 minute book of Oldland Mill Committee Minutes and agendas of the Oldland Mill Committee of the Hassocks Amenity Association, 1980-2000, and digital copies Architectural drawings of mill (2 rolls, 1 A3 vol) Copy of 1934 issue of 'Sussex County Magazine' with article on the mill. Digital copy of 1980 report on mill by Vincent Pargeter DVDs showing mill refurbishment Correspondence files 1976-1990 Copies of 1897 and 1957 deeds Press cuttings Copies of magazines with articles relating to Oldland Mill Digitised photographs
Files of reports, correspondence and other documents relating to UK millwrighting projects between 1965 and 1980 and US millwrighting projects between 1976 and 2012. Includes working drawings and photographs
Notebooks, correspondence, published and unpublished work, photographs, postcards and photocopies from publications; relating to wind and water mills from the UK and around the world.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Records of Holman Brothers Ltd, including ledgers, wage books, photographs, trade catalogues, correspondence, plans and other documents dating from the 19th century to 1975. These relate largely to ploughing and threshing, but also to millwrighting. To this Geoff Holman has added material he created or collected from the late 20th century to the 2000s relating to his research into the firm and his wider interest in wind and water mills. This includes photographs of mills, digital and paper drafts of a book on Holman Brothers and related research, and digital files on mills, mainly those in Kent.
Holman, Geoffrey Richard (1937-2011), photographer and mill enthusiast