Items purchased online by Nigel Harris and donated to the Mills Archive. The images and text from the online listings have been incorporated into this catalogue.
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).
Card Index comprising 30k millers. Index of mills by county. Ringbinders of letters to Tom Hine in response to his article in Family Tree Magazine re. his index of mills and millers.
Brent Mill. Extracts from "The Story of Watling Street and The Brent" by Sidney Keyes. Old b/w photo of the mill; noted taken in 1885; demolished 1901; sent to Tom Hine by Tony Brown and Janet Capan Brown March 1999.
Transcript of Indenture for Sellinge Windmill transcribed by Jenny Paterson between owner and millwright /builder of the mill.
Barking Abbey & Tamworth Mill excavations. Copy report by Kenneth MacGowan supplied by Thames Valley Archaeological Services.
Hagbourne Mill Oxon. Copy Preliminary Building Investigation Report & Recording by Queenpost Building Histories.
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
Photographs, correspondence, documents and architectural drawings relating to UK mills, mainly in Kent. Includes Paul Jarvis's 35mm slide collection, the casework files for his work for the SPAB Mills Section, material relating to the Kent Mills Group and drafts of his books.
