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.
Photographs, negatives, reports and research notes on UK wind and watermills. Photographs and research material on sugar mills in the Caribbean by David Nicholls and Cyril McCoombe. Micro tapes of conversations with mill workers in Barbados.
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
Images and cuttings, mainly of windmills with some material on watermills, covering most UK counties. Parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries. The remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Meyer, Harry (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
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.
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.
Display boards from the Molinological Conference ('Molicon'), 1979. Copies of drawings of Wrawby post mill by C T G B, 1968. Three films:UK windmills inc Paxton and Bourne, 1968; Denmark windmills, May 1974; Blakedown Forge, Churchill, Worcestershire, July 1971.
Photos of 141 UK mills, mostly in the south. Some exist in negative only, some in print only and some in both. They have been scanned by M Hardy prior to passing to the archive. Scans are available in original and edited form (removal of scratches etc).
Photographs of English windmills. Four pastel drawings by P B Adnams, 1926, showing Upton Mill, near Ryde, Isle of Wight; Peg Mill, Ashurst, Sussex; Smock Mill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire; Peg Mill, Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire.
Images and field notes covering specific mills in detail. Particular coverage of Surrey, Greater London and Essex. Parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries. The remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Photos of windmills in the UK and elsewhere, including one of Ruby Lewis and Guy Petitfils outside the latter's mill. Signed copy of Guy Petitfils book.
