Archive Catalogue

The Soundy Family Collection

SNDY
Collection
1861- c 2010

Legal deeds and other items relating to the Soundy family of millers and The Abbey Mills, Reading.

Soundy family, millers

Deed of Partnership between Eisdell and Soundy

SNDY-01
Item
18 May 1861

Part of The Soundy Family Collection

See attached PDF for details.

Slocombe, William, solicitor

"View of Fredericksburg, Virginia"

MCFC-WAR-USA-002
Item
1863

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

View of Frederickburg showing Excelsior Mills located near the railway bridge after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.

Tadcaster Mill

TADC-02-01
Item
Between 1864 and 1875

Part of Tadcaster Mill Files

Unknown photographer

View of Mill Street, with mill in left foreground, Bridge Mill, Maidstone

ASFC-25226
Item
Copy of photograph taken 1864

Part of Alan Stoyel Foundation Collection

Copy of old photograph. Kent Messenger, 1864.

Stoyel, B D

Account of Mr Thomas Williams with Town, Bathwick and Kingston Flour Mills Bath (George Humphries)

EIGH-15-16
Item
August - December 1864

Part of Brian Eighteen Mill Collection

Composite bill (undated) referring to deliveries on 18 August, 30 September, November and December 1864. Total amount

Humphries, George, miller

Account of Mr H G Thomas with Town, Bathwick and Kingston Flour Mills Bath (George Humphries)

EIGH-15-15
Item
Refering to deliveries on 17 October 1864 and 16 and 23 January 1865

Part of Brian Eighteen Mill Collection

Net Bill for

Humphries, George, miller

Apprenticeship indenture of Charles William Dew and letters of reference

SMDN-2018.0003
File
14 October 1865, 24 October 1870, 3 June 1871

Part of Small Donations

Apprenticeship indenture of Charles William Dew to Thomas Pilbeam, 1865. Letter of reference from Thomas Pilbeam, 1870. Letter of reference from Alex Menzies, West Medina Mills, 1871.

Dew, Charles William (fl 1860s-70s), millwright

Mill Lane, Reading, looking eastwards down St. Giles's Mill Stream

READ-1220896
Item
c.1870

Part of Reading Central Library Images

A footbridge spans the stream between the water-tower and Mill Lane. A wagon laden with sacks stands under the hoist of the mill.

Gallego Flour Mills in ruin

MCFC-WAR-USA-001
Item
1865

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Destroyed during the American Civil War, the Confederates burned areas of Richmond on 2 April 1865 to prevent the Union Army from taking them. The flour mill fell victim. This photograph is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.13.