Archive Catalogue

"Derelict mill near Ardglass"

CUTT-03847
Item
23 November 1933

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo of the silhouette of Ardglass Windmill in its derelict state.

"Ballyholme windmill : then and now"

CUTT-03851
Item
19 June 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Pair of photos showing the changes in Ballyholme Windmill site between 1887 and 1935.

"Original Housing"

CUTT-03853
Item
29 December 1933

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo from the 'Belfast Telegraph' showing how an old windmill tower at Crossgar, Co. Down, was being converted into a house.

"The Bumper Squire"

CUTT-03852
Item
13 March 1940

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Letter to the Editor of 'The Belfast News-Letter' from "B. N.-L." contradicting a whole series of "facts" given by "Verity" about where Cope's Mill had been. [It closes with the note "This correspondence is now closed -- Ed." but we don't appear to have any earlier parts.]

Exterior view of preserved watermill building with double wheel

FWGC-1113545
Item
No date

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher

Exterior view of small thatched stone watermill building, preserved, with wheel

FWGC-1113543
Item
No date

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher

"Newry's old windmill"

CUTT-03830
Item
6 May 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Letter to the Editor of the 'Belfast Telegraph' from Mr. W. F. Cunningham, of Newry, commending the efforts of local councillors to get their old windmill preserved.

"Stone in garden is key to age of Ards windmill"

CUTT-03843
Item
29 October 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Belfast Telegraph' about how a chipped stone in a Belfast back garden has solved the question of who built the windmill at Ballycopeland.

"Milling Family the Magiltons"

CUTT-04337
Item
3 November 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Letter to the Editor of 'The Belfast Telegraph' from Alex. Mawhilley giving his view that the Ballycopeland windmill was built by the Magilton family of mill-wrights.

"A relic of other days"

CUTT-03846
Item
22 January 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photograph in 'The Belfast News-Letter' showing the dilapidated state of Ballycopeland Windmill neat Millisle, Co. Down.

"New lease of life for a mill"

CUTT-03845
Item
12 March 1970

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Letter to the Editor of 'Country Life' from E. V. Malone of Downpatrick, Co. Down, recording the restoration of Ballycopeland Windmill and its opening to the public back in 1959.

"Local windmill now industrial antiquity"

CUTT-03844
Item
30 October 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Newtownards Chronicle' recording the completion of the restoration of Ballycopeland Windmill and its opening to the public

"Re-opened after repairs"

CUTT-03842
Item
23 October 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in 'The Belfast News-Letter' that the well-known windmill at Millisle is to re-open on Thursday next, 29th October 1959.

"Mill under repair"

CUTT-03841
Item
11 September 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo in 'The Belfast News-Letter' showing the clean white tower of Ballycopeland windmill with the last of the scaffolding coming away.

"Ministry is making a mess of windmill"

CUTT-03840
Item
25 July 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'belfast Telegraph' of an argument between a retired milling firm manager and the Ministry of Finance about the way Ballycopeland Mill at Millisle is being restored.

"Windmill in splints"

CUTT-03839
Item
1 June 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo in the 'Belfast Telegraph' showing the tower of Ballycopeland windmill heavily encased in scaffolding.

"Repairs to old windmill"

CUTT-03838
Item
20 March 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo in the 'Belfast Telegraph' showing scaffolding round the tower of Ballycopeland Mill, Millisle.

"Windmill repaired"

CUTT-03837
Item
23 October 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in the 'Irish Independent' about the repairs which have been completed on the Ballycopeland windmill, whose last miller, Samuel McGilton, had ceased work in 1915 rather than lower the standards of his flour to meet wartime regulations.