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Christopher Wallis Collection

  • WALL
  • Collection
  • 1949-2006

Architectural drawings, correspondence, documents and photographs; relating to restoration and conservation of windmills and watermills.

Wallis, Christopher Louden (1935-2006), civil engineer

John Bicknell Collection

  • JPBC
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century

Photographs of UK windmills.

Bicknell, John Peter

David H Jones Collection

  • DHJC
  • Collection
  • 20th century

Photographs of English and Welsh watermills. Index cards re mills in Denmark and Scotland, containing only name, location and Jespersen's international mill index serial number.

Jones, David H (1926-2023)

Peter Musgrove Collection

  • MUSG
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century-2023

Publications, papers and photographs relating to the history of wind electricity generation in the UK and worldwide. Includes:

Correspondence with publisher and image copyright holders re. Peter Musgrove's 2010 book 'wind power'.

16 boxes of wind power material from the 1970s-1990s.

2 folders re. Central Electricity Generating Board's wind power activities, 1970s-1980s.

Musgrove, Peter

Alan Stoyel Foundation Collection

  • ASFC
  • Collection
  • 16th century - 2021

Research notes and photographs on UK watermills and other milling related subjects.

Stoyel, Alan (1939 – 2021), watermill researcher

Peter Dolman Collection

  • DOLM
  • Collection
  • c 1900 - 2002

Collection of windmill and watermill photographs, drawings, research notes, correspondence and other documents relating to UK mills, with particular emphasis on the regions of Bedfordshire, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. Includes research on Whitmore and Binyon Ltd, millwrights and engineers.

Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller

Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

  • MCFC
  • Collection
  • 18th century - present

UK and foreign Mills. Emphasis on wind-powered sites in the UK, Europe and North America.

Cookson, Mildred M, miller

Wilfred Foreman Drawings

  • FORM
  • Collection
  • 1970s - 1980s

Architectural drawings of mills.

Foreman, Wilfred (1910-1997)

The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

  • MMAC
  • Collection
  • 1890s-1980s

Records of the National Association of British and Irish Millers (NABIM, renamed UK Flour Millers) and the Millers' Mutual Association. Records include minutes of NABIM, MMA, the Flour Milling Employers Federation, the National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour Milling Industry and other bodies; deeds of purchase for mills; patents; accounts and financial documents; policies; cereal stock forms; photographs.

Millers' Mutual Association

Jim Woodward-Nutt Collection

  • JWNC
  • Collection
  • 20th century

Surveys and images of mills in UK. Files on Shipley, Outwood and Wimbledon windmills.

Woodward-Nutt, James, known as Jim

Rex Wailes Collection

  • REXW
  • Collection
  • c 1900 - 1986

Images and documents on windmills and watermills in various regions of the UK, Europe and the USA. Includes material on the sugar mills of Barbados. Some parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries; the remainder is listed in the attached PDF.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

G C Wilson Collection

  • GCWC
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century

35mm slides of UK mills

Wilson, Graham Christopher, miller and millwright

Stephen Buckland Collection

  • JSPB
  • Collection
  • 20th century - September 2005

Notebooks, correspondence, published and unpublished work, photographs, postcards and photocopies from publications; relating to wind and water mills from the UK and around the world.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Tim Booth Collection

  • DTNB
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century - 2016

Files of research and images on UK wind and watermills, primarily in the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Slides and negatives from another unknown creator.

SPAB mill casework files worked on by Tim Booth:
Weston Mill, Oswestry (2 files)
Miller's Hall, Wolverhampton (2 files)
Slingfield Mills, Kidderminster
Wem Mills
Lugg Bridge Mill near Hereford
Morlas Mill near Kilpeck
Shelfield Mill, Walsall
Fort Pendlestone, Bridgnorth
Bill Mills, Ross-on-Wye

Booth, D Timothy N (d 2022)

The Northwestern Miller

  • TNWM
  • Collection
  • 1886-1973

A weekly publication for the US and international flour milling industry, bakers and adjacent industries. The journal was published from 1873 to 1973. The Mills Archive holds one of the most complete runs of the journal, including many issues dated between 1886 and 1909, and almost every issue from 1925 onwards.

The content of these journals includes: weekly national and international grain market reports; yield reports; national and international economic and government policy articles and reports; milling, baking, weather, and other related industry articles and commentaries; social and cultural content such as wedding announcements, obituaries, job change notices, job advertisements, and professional profiles. Each journal contains an ‘Index of Advertisers’ and extensive advertisements for flour, mills, insecticides, flour bags and flour sacks, and other industry-related businesses and services.

The content of the journals reflects the attitudes of its time and some of the language and images may be offensive or upsetting.

The Miller Publishing Company

Owlsworth IJP Millwrighting Records

  • OIJP
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century - 2000s

Millwrighting drawings and other records relating to work on wind and watermills by Owlsworth IJP (previously Millwrights International and then the Chiltern Partnership).

Owlsworth IJP, millwrights and building restorers

Vincent Pargeter Collection

  • PARG
  • Collection
  • 20th century - 2015

Drawings, documents and images from Vincent Pargeter's millwrighting career.

Pargeter, Vincent G (1943-2015), millwright

Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

  • ASHL
  • Collection
  • Early 20th century

Photographs and negatives, some mounted on glass, depicting windmills and watermills. These are mainly in East Anglia. Interior and exterior views are shown.

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

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