- SMDN-2014.0018
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- ? 1990s/2000s
Part of Small Donations
Photographs of windmills in Milton Keynes (2 images); Kibworth Harcourt (2 images); Offerkerque, France; Ymonville, France; Pitstone and Moulbaix, Belgium.
Unknown photographer
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Part of Small Donations
Photographs of windmills in Milton Keynes (2 images); Kibworth Harcourt (2 images); Offerkerque, France; Ymonville, France; Pitstone and Moulbaix, Belgium.
Unknown photographer
Volume LIX, No. 777 of "The Sphere" illustrated magazine. Page 265 entitled "Fighting in the Windmill Country of North France and Belgium" shows several windmills that have either been destroyed or used by soldiers.
Pp. 268-9 depicts the Cameron Highlanders capturing a German force near Langemarck, with a smock mill in the background.
Page 14 shows flooded plains with a derelict tower mill in the Yser valley.
"The scotch forming their lines again under a terrible fire before their last charge"
This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.41. Probably a stylised depiction of a Langemark mill.
"Ramscapelle: Village polderien"
"Leke - Le Moulin Vandenberghe - Vandenberghe Mill"
"The ruins of Leke 1914-1918 Van den Bergh's Mill"
"Ruines de Langemarck - Le Moulin a l'entree de Langemarck"
Postcard postmarked 26 July 1923.
"The ruins of Zarren-near-Dixmude 1914-1918 The station and the mill"
"Dès 8 heures du matin, le 11 mai 1745, la batterie du Moulin et l'artillerie d'Antoing envoyèrent leurs projectiles sur les Autrichiens et les Holandais qui attaquaient Antoing dans le but de tourner la droite française. Le moulin a été démoli par les Allemands en 1918."
"At 8 o'clock in the morning, May 11, 1745, the battery of the Mill and the artillery of Antoing sent their projectiles on the Austrians and the Holandais who attacked Antoing in order to turn the French right. The mill was demolished by the Germans in 1918."
Destroyed during the Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October 1917.
"Gesprengte Windmuhle in Becelaere"
A German postcard sent from a soldier in the 29th Infantry Division, postmarked 6th March, year unknown.
"Napoleon watched his troops from the top of this mill (not in this war)".
"Observatoire improvise de Napoleon 1er pendant la bataille de Fleurus en 1815". Postmarked 16 June 1902.
"A mill transformed into a field-hospital near Antwerp"
This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.42.
Scrapbook of postcards and cuttings
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Scrapbook of postcards, newspaper and magazine cuttings of mills in The Netherlands, France, Belgium and United Kingdom. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 68.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Scrapbook of mill photos and postcards
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Scrapbook of windmill and watermill photographs by Frank Gregory of mills in Devon; photographs and postcards of mills in France; Belgium; of work being done to South Ockendon Mill and a wallet of negatives of the mill dated 1964-65; of work being undertaken by Chris Hullcoop at Over Mill. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 35.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Scrapbook of mill photos and postcards
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Scrapbook of windmill and watermill photographs and postcards of mills in France; Belgium; photographs of Cross-in-Hand, Sussex with Frank Gregory; Spain; Greece; England; Scotland. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 31.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
2 photographs of windmills in Antwerp, information leaflets, and photocopies of magazine articles from "Tourisme-Provincie Antwerpen" (in Flemish), June 1965, and a copy of the same magazine, 15 April 1965, relating to windmills and watermills in Antwerp, Belgium.
Unknown creator