Top of King's Mill (also known as Belloc's Mill)
- SHOR-1119021
- Item
- 1994
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 6 of Album No. 2. Photograph of the top of King's Mill, showing one of the sweeps and the fantail.
Short, Michael
Top of King's Mill (also known as Belloc's Mill)
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 6 of Album No. 2. Photograph of the top of King's Mill, showing one of the sweeps and the fantail.
Short, Michael
Letter from Bruce Phillips (Oxford University Press) to Michael Short
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 2 of Album No. 2. A letter from Bruce Phillips to Michael Short concerning John Ireland and Rock Mill. The letter outlines Phillips' interest in Rock Mill as he used to live in the windmill himself.
Short, Michael
Letter from Brenda May to Michael Short
Part of Michael Short Collection
A thankyou letter from Brenda May to Michael Short. May thanks Short for his talk that he gave at Bourne Mill and for answering questions about Ramsey Windmill.
Letter from Ken Major to Michael Short
Part of Michael Short Collection
Short letter from Ken Major to Michael Short. Major enquires as to where the 'Y' wheel is located that appeared on a postcard that Short sent him.
Letter from Chris Hullcoop to Michael Short
Part of Michael Short Collection
A reply letter from Chris Hullcoop to Michael Short. Hullcoop thanks Short for his offer of help with Ramsey Windmill in Essex. He also explains that the work at the mill is interesting but also depends on the weather and that there is much work to do to try and preserve the mill.
Michael Short's tour of Billingford Mill
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 40 of Album No.1. These notes from Michael Short describe a journey he made by car from Norwich to Billingford Mill. He describes how he obtained the key to the mill and proceeded to look around the mill. The visit occurred on 21st August 1976.
Short, Michael
Michael Short's tour of Cley Windmill
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 42 of Album No.1. Michael Short describing, in note form, how he took a car to see Cley Windmill. There he met the son of the owner of the residence, who kindly showed Short and a friend around the mill, and provided a sort of 'guided tour'. Dated 20th August 1976.
Short, Michael
Second letter from Royston Moody to Michael Short
Part of Michael Short Collection
This is a follow-up letter from Royston (and Margaret) Moody to Michael Short. Moody mentions a trip that he and Margaret took to Norfolk where they took photographs of the Mill at Denver. Despite one book saying to the contrary, Moody asserts that the sweeps had been restored and that its condition was good. He also believes that the mill was a flour rather than a water mill.
A quotation referring to Great Gransden Mill
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 15 of Album No.1. A quotation from Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain from Reader's Digest Association in 1973. The quotation describes the owner, William Webb, and how he discovered a book of black magic among his dead brother's belongings.
Short, Michael
Letter from M.H. Cook to Michael Short
Part of Michael Short Collection
In this letter Cook explains to Short that he conducted an excavation at the site of the Upper Mill in Wandsworth, London. Cook emphasises that he found many articles of interest, including trace plans and wheel-designs by Smeaton. Cook also asks Short if he may use Short's library in order to help clear up some anomalies.
Letter from John Bradbury to Michael Short concerning Ashby's Mill
Part of Michael Short Collection
The letter from Bradbury thanks Short for his account of Windmills in Lambeth. Bradbury emphasises the importance of Ashby's Mill in Brixton, explaining that it is the only surviving Mill in Lambeth.
Letter to Michael Short from H.E.S Simmons
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 47 of Album No.1. A letter from H.E.S. Simmons to Michael Short regarding Sulgrave Mill in Northamptonshire. Simmons tells Short that he does not know too much about the history of Sulgrave mill, but he proceeds to give a detailed analysis of the history of the interior of the mill.
Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher
Handwritten Notes about the post mill at South Normanton
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 11 of Album No.1. Very brief note from Michael Short stating that The Post Mill skeleton at South Normanton is still standing. Mentioned in a lecture in July 1971.
Short, Michael
Extract from 'The Garderers' Gazette'
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 2 of Album No.1. Notes detailing an extract taken from 'The Garderners' Gazette', No. 269 (26th February 1842), p. 129 onwards. The extract is about James Messenger who was accidentally killed by the sweep sails at the mill in Houghton Regis, near Dunstable.
Short, Michael
Another Photograph of Windmill Hill Mill
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 4 of Album No. 2. Another photograph of Windmill Hill mill from a different angle.
Short, Michael
Quotation from extract mentioning St. Leonard's Mill
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 30 of Album No. 2. An extract taken from 'An old gate of England, by A.G. Bradley and R. Scott' - p.117. The extract tells how Thomas of Walsingham describes how King Edward (Short does not describe which one) survived an accident with his horse that was spooked by the windmill. He also describes how there was a crude painting of St. Leonard in the court hall. Quotation from 1917.
Short, Michael
Page references concerning Snuff Mill at Stodday
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 36 of Album No. 2. A couple of very brief page references with regards to the Royal Exchange Policy Registers that Short discovered at the archives in Devizes, Wiltshire.
Short, Michael
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 45 of Album No.1. A Photograph of Morse's Mill at Thurne Dyke in Norfolk showing its four sweeps and fantail, situated by The Broads.
Short, Michael
Quotation from extract mentioning Udimore Mill
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 29 of Album No. 2. An extract taken from 'An old gate of England, by A.G. Bradley and R. Scott' - p.200. The extract describes how the windmill at Udimore made a big impression on people entering the village, and how it was an important landmark. They also express fears about its future after it had been declared unsafe. Quotation from 1917.
Short, Michael
References to East Bergholt Mill
Part of Michael Short Collection
Pocket No. 51 of Album No.1. Notes containing a quote from the caption to a photo in 'The Suffolk Landscape' by Norman Scarfe. No specific date, but the date given for the book is 1972.
Short, Michael