Archive Catalogue

1726 date on spout floor, post mill, Great Chishill

TECH-GC133
Item
27 April 2017

Part of Technical Information Project

Blythman, Guy

1821 date on spout floor timber, post mill, Great Chishill

TECH-GC111
Item
27 April 2017

Part of Technical Information Project

Blythman, Guy

"2/2 London RGA 1916"

MCFC-WAR-GBR-021
Item
1916

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

The 2/2nd London Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.40.

"A coat of paint"

CUTT-04825
Item
28 July 1933

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Evening News" picturing painters at work on Moreton windmill, which has escaped a plan to dismantle it.

"A Coronation Suggestion - to the Editor of Country Life"

CUTT-04986
Item
15 May 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Country Life" A letter to the editor suggests the Old Mill at Mountnessing should be restored, together with some surrounding land, for the public in commemoration of George VI's coronation.

Adjusting the sail, Mill Green Mill, Ingatestone

KGFC-GPN-A-058
Item
No date

Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection

Farries, Kenneth G, author

"An endowed windmill"

CUTT-04928
Item
29 November 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Eastern Daily Press" about the handing over of Bocking windmill to the Parish Council.

"An Essex landmark"

CUTT-00973
Item
06 March 1928

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Daily Telegraph' of a photograph of Bocking Mill recommending its preservation. The article also mentions the that the owner of the mill had offered the building and its surrounding areas for this purpose.

"An Essex Landmark"

CUTT-04789
Item
29 November 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from an "Daily Telegraph" picturing Bocking Windmill, which has been handed over to the Parish Council.

"An Essex landmark saved"

CUTT-04939
Item
5 March 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "East Anglian Daily Times" picturing Bocking windmill and mentioning that it has been taken over by Bocking Council.

"An Essex Windmill"

CUTT-04979
Item
22 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Southend Gazette" giving publicity to the preservation of the old windmill of Essex at Mountnessing. The mill is now being in "the safekeeping" of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. It has beeen proposewd that the restoration work should be undertaken as a memorial of the coronation of George VI.

"An Essex windmill at work"

CUTT-04783
Item
13 January 1928

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Building" picturing Mountnessing windmill at work.

"An Essex windmill saved"

CUTT-04852
Item
30 November 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Leyton Express" about the preservation of Bocking windmill.

"An Essex windmill saved"

CUTT-04877
Item
26 November 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Times" outlining the procedure of buying and repairing Bocking windmill.

"An Essex Windmill to be Saved - Noted landmarks threatened"

CUTT-04968
Item
14 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Times" reporting that "Essex County Council has decided to take steps to save windmills in Essex from possible demolition". This was precipitated by a letter received from the Society of the Protection of Ancient Buildings expressing "concern at the rapid disappearance of windmills in Essex".

"An old mill in Finchingfield village"

CUTT-04797
Item
28 August 1926

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Essex County Standard" picturing a mill in Finchingfield Village.

"Ancient landmark doomed?"

CUTT-04784
Item
13 September 1928

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Motor Cycle" picturing Bocking Windmill and mentioning the effort to save it.

"Ancient Windmill, to be Preserved as Historical Monument"

CUTT-04965
Item
27 November 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the "Bristol Evening News" stated the the "old Bocking Windmill was handed over to the Bocking Parish Council as an historic monument". The mill was a relic of the earliest type of wooden structure where a demonstration of the primitive method of grinding corn was carried out by four old mill workers.