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Hamper Mill Watford Herts

A paper mill, also referred to as Oxhey Mill by Kenneth C Reid. The file contains a small number of correspondence items and four photographic postcards which appear to date from the first quarter of the 20th century.

Lease of Purwell Mill, Hitchin

6 page paper indenture (approx 38 x 24 cm); lease of Purwell Mill, Hitchin, Hertfordshire for 7 years, rent £110 per year. A detailed inventory of fixtures, machinery and equipment leased is included in the schedules. Original document available for reference. For content click on the link to the document transcription.

Abstract of title to three mills at Banbury

5 vellum sheets (30 cm x 20 cm) providing an abstract of Mr Darnelly's title to lands in Banbury traced back to: a lease by Queen Elizabeth I to Anthony Cope of two Banbury Mills dated 7 July 1587; a conveyance of a third mill "being a Windmill" from Thomas Hawtaine (son of Henry and Mary Hawtaine) to Richard Vivers dated 18 July 1632; a deed dated 6 October [1616] under which Henry Hawtaine made a "jointure of the premises" to his wife, Mary, being "the windmill the Ivy Close b[y] the Meadow....all part of Easington Farms" which he had purchased "from the king"; a conveyance of "the Fine yard Lands at Nethrop" from Richard Cope, John Churchill and Richard Hastings to Richard Vivers dated 27 April 1616; a conveyance of "the Barns" from Thomas and Edward Kirton to Robert Vivers dated 18 June 1652. The abstract is completed with Mr Darnelly obtaining judgement in Trinity Term 1662 for £900.

Recollections of Neville Price, Kent miller

Copy of part of Neville's recollections of his days as a flour miller in Kent. Involves Abbot's Mill at Canterbury, and others. Extracted from Chapters 6-8 of a larger document, dated 12 Feb 1999. Provenance of this extract unclear: supplied to 'Charles' by Mike and Lesley Price, descendants of Neville, in 2001.

Price, Neville (1908-1992), miller

"Seaton Sluice"

Form from the 1929 SPAB windmill survey. Includes press cutting from the Evening Chronicle, January 1957, about the demolition of all but three feet of the mill to make way for a council estate. This has not been included in the attached PDF for copyright reasons.

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