- SPAB
- Collection
- 1920s onwards
Records of the work of the SPAB Mills Section preserving windmills and watermills. Wind and watermill related items donated to the Society.
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Mills Section
Records of the work of the SPAB Mills Section preserving windmills and watermills. Wind and watermill related items donated to the Society.
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Mills Section
Bodley Foundry Workshop Drawings
Workshop drawings, sketches and pattern shop instructions for waterwheels gearing and associated matters.
Bodley Brothers and Company
Images and correspondence regarding UK windmills, with an emphasis on East Anglia.
Dunn, Michael (1916-1993)
Very large collection of documents and images, including original handwritten notes and drawings, relating to wind & water mills from many countries (mainly UK).
Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher
Photographs and documents relating to Ripple Mill.
Atkinson, Keith
Prints, negatives and 35mm slides of Kent windmills relating to Peter Cobley's time as conservation architect for Kent County Council. Drawings of Herne mill.
Cobley, Peter
Drawings, documents and images from Vincent Pargeter's millwrighting career.
Pargeter, Vincent G (1943-2015), millwright
Photographs of 597 English windmills (with digital copies), 23 Scottish windmills and mills elsewhere in the world. Digital files relating to Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford.
Dudley, Michael
Images and text relating to Padley Mill, Derbyshire - early history and reconstruction, 1992-2004. The attached list details the digital files.
Blundell-Jones, Peter
Files of reports, correspondence and other documents relating to UK millwrighting projects between 1965 and 1980 and US millwrighting projects between 1976 and 2012. Includes working drawings and photographs
Ogden, Derek, millwright
Extensive collection of notes, images and drawings relating to wind and water, with emphasis on North West England and North Wales. Some parts have been given individual catalogue entries, the remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Paterson, Don (d 2002)
Images of Surrey and Sussex watermills, many of which have appeared in books by Derek Stidder, research on UK mills.
Stidder, Derek (1950-2017)
Records of Holman Brothers Ltd, including ledgers, wage books, photographs, trade catalogues, correspondence, plans and other documents dating from the 19th century to 1975. These relate largely to ploughing and threshing, but also to millwrighting. To this Geoff Holman has added material he created or collected from the late 20th century to the 2000s relating to his research into the firm and his wider interest in wind and water mills. This includes photographs of mills, digital and paper drafts of a book on Holman Brothers and related research, and digital files on mills, mainly those in Kent.
Holman, Geoffrey Richard (1937-2011), photographer and mill enthusiast
Brian Eighteen Mill Collection
Material on watermills in the Reading area, on the Thames, Kennet and Loddon rivers.
Eighteen, Brian (1930-2015), local historian
H S Ronald Hawksley Collection
Photographs of mills in the UK and elsewhere in the world; correspondence, notes and other material.
Hawksley, Harry Stephen Ronald (1918-2005), mill enthusiast
Mill photographs taken on SPAB, TIMS and other mill tours. Other mill photographs and material (UK and elsewhere).
Pelling, John Tritton, mill enthusiast
Photographs, correspondence, documents and architectural drawings relating to UK mills, mainly in Kent. Includes Paul Jarvis's 35mm slide collection, the casework files for his work for the SPAB Mills Section, material relating to the Kent Mills Group and drafts of his books.
Jarvis, Paul S (1926-2014)
Albums of UK windmill photos. Photo of Ken Preece and short biography.
Preece, Ken, photographer
See attached list.
Smith, Roland W, mill enthusiast