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"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

Working

Working

Sugar Cane Mill, Barbados.
J R H Seifert and Co.
"This is the old kind of sugar mill that has been gradually replaced by steam mills." (Miss Sanderson)
Posted March 1905

Unknown photographer

"The Silence of a Caribbean mill"

"The Silence of a Caribbean mill"

One-page, creative narrative describing the sounds of an imagined day of work at a Caribbean sugar mill. This piece was written for the Mills Archive's "Mill Memories" referenced below.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Technical drawings - various authors

Various technical drawings, sketches and plans from a variety of authors/draftsmen, all of which relating to the Morgan Lewis sugar mills. These comprise:
(1) SGB International's technical drawing for access scaffold (4 September 1997)
(2) Chiltern Partnership's drawing of Greenheart Arms (July 1996)
(3) 2 technical drawings for the Morgan Lewis Boiling House by Guy C. Grant Jr. (7 February 1995) and D.H. Weeks (27 January 1995)
(4) Copies of 2 technical drawings marked "Morgan Lewis, Survey, Elevations" (March 1971) and "Preliminary Factory Layout" (August 1972) both by Roderick Ward Associates
(5) A drawing of a Neck Plate Band by Colin Webster (undated)
(6) 10 of Nicholl's own drawings, plans and sketches for the restoration project, some of which are labelled, "sprattle beam details", "cap frame", "Nancleara [w] shaft", "spindle base", "cast steel", "footstep bearing", "collar detail", "tail tree top", "cap frame/curb details" and "elevation/section at tail beam and tail-pole outline", (those that are dated ranging from January 1994 to 22 January 1997).

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Project in progress - photographs

Project in progress - photographs

6 images of the restoration project in progress (c.1994), 4 of which printed onto standard A4 paper and 2 printed onto A4 photographic paper. The final image (again, printed onto standard A4 paper) is of the aftermath of a storm in 2008, after which the sails were taken down and restored in 2009.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

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) 5 editions of "Our Heritage", the Newsletter of the Barbados National Trust (March 1994, September 1995, June 1996, September 1997 and December 1999), 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

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