Display boards from the Molinological Conference ('Molicon'), 1979. Copies of drawings of Wrawby post mill by C T G B, 1968. Three films:UK windmills inc Paxton and Bourne, 1968; Denmark windmills, May 1974; Blakedown Forge, Churchill, Worcestershire, July 1971.
Photos of 141 UK mills, mostly in the south. Some exist in negative only, some in print only and some in both. They have been scanned by M Hardy prior to passing to the archive. Scans are available in original and edited form (removal of scratches etc).
Photographs of English windmills. Four pastel drawings by P B Adnams, 1926, showing Upton Mill, near Ryde, Isle of Wight; Peg Mill, Ashurst, Sussex; Smock Mill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire; Peg Mill, Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire.
Photos of windmills in the UK and elsewhere, including one of Ruby Lewis and Guy Petitfils outside the latter's mill. Signed copy of Guy Petitfils book.
Documentation from patent cases Buhler AG v Satake UK, 1996, for which Bryan McGee was a defendant witness, and Buhler AG v FP Spomax SA, 2008, for which he was an expert witness. Diagrams giving history of milling businesses. Correspondence with Glyn Jones, 1999-2005. Correspondence with G Highley Sugden. Presentations from conference 'The Science of Wheat and Milling' (Feb 2006, Leuven, Belgium) - includes useful flowchart showing history of mill engineering firms. Miscellaneous correspondence, photocopies, cuttings and other items re. history of roller milling. McGee's Technological Examination Prize medal from City & Guilds of London. Roller mill machinery manufacturer's nameplates.
Files of research and images on UK wind and watermills, primarily in the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Slides and negatives from another unknown creator.
SPAB mill casework files worked on by Tim Booth: Weston Mill, Oswestry (2 files) Miller's Hall, Wolverhampton (2 files) Slingfield Mills, Kidderminster Wem Mills Lugg Bridge Mill near Hereford Morlas Mill near Kilpeck Shelfield Mill, Walsall Fort Pendlestone, Bridgnorth Bill Mills, Ross-on-Wye
Extensive collection of notes, images and drawings relating to wind and water, with emphasis on North West England and North Wales. Some parts have been given individual catalogue entries, the remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Photographs, site notes and excerpts from published material mounted in albums relating to mills in Kent and elsewhere. The watermill photographs by Jean Weir and the windmill photographs by Jack Hodges form the two main subcollections.
Survey of watermills in Gloucestershire and other counties with related photographs and notes. Files of SPAB watermill survey forms filled out by G M Davies were included as GMDC-02 and GMDC-04, but are now catalogued as part of the SPAB watermill survey (SPAB-WAS).
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