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Research materials, photocopies and clippings

Stored with Nicholl's formal reports and correspondence on Morgan Lewis Sugar Mill these research materials comprise:
(1) a photocopy of a late 18th c. to early 19th c return listing enslaved persons working on Scawen Kenrick Gibbon's estate, the Morgan Lewis sugar plantation.
(2) a faxed copy of a page from a late 19th c. order book showing an order for "Morgan Lewis, Est Barbados" for two "vertical roll 23 ΒΌ x 35" in 1880 and 1881 and an order for "Windmill gear" dated 1892.
(3) a short booklet on the Morgan Lewis Sugar Windmill produced by the Barbados National Trust (undated).
(4) 4 editions of "Our Heritage", the Newsletter of the Barbados National Trust (March 1994, September 1995, June 1996 and September 1997) all of which referencing the Morgan Lewis restoration programme.
(5) 3 newspaper/magazine clippings/copies relating to the progress of the Morgan Lewis restoration programme (1997-1998).

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Written up notes

Several pieces from catalogues, including pieces from: W. & A.Mc Onie, Engineers, Glasgow. Fletcher and Stewart limited and Fawcett, Preston & Co. LTD.

Barbados photos

Images and postcards including Christmas cards from Barbados; featuring images of both windmills and Barbados in general.

David Nicholls (Millwright) Collection

  • NICH
  • Collection
  • 1960s - 2016

Photographs, negatives, reports and research notes on UK wind and watermills. Photographs and research material on sugar mills in the Caribbean by David Nicholls and Cyril McCoombe. Micro tapes of conversations with mill workers in Barbados. [3.3.1 To be completed]

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

"Barbados - Sugar Mills"

Envelope containing four photographs of Morgan Lewis Mill taken by Arthur Dunn, with notes on the reverse; postcard of Burnt House Plantation from Donald Muggeridge; greeting card showing St. Ann's Garrison; postcard of Morgan Lewis Mill; greeting card from Donald Muggeridge showing St. Ann's Garrison; postcard of an unidentified tower mill in Barbados; two photographs of postcards showing sugar mills.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

"Sugar Cane Windmills B W I"

Photograph wallet containing three photographs of Ebworth Plantation sugar mill, Barbados, dated 1904 and annotated; photograph of Mount Healthy Mill, Tortola, Barbados by Donald Muggeridge, dated 1989; 35mm negative strip with four panels showing a sugar mill. The wallet does not contain the photographs.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

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