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Derek Ogden Collection

  • OGDE
  • Collection
  • 1932-2012

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

Harry Meyer Collection

  • MEYE
  • Collection
  • 1930s-1950s

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

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

Michael Short Collection

  • SHOR
  • Collection
  • 1785 - late 20th century

Images, correspondence, presscuttings, leaflets, notebooks and legal deeds relating to English windmills. The collection includes material created by Martin T Mason and T J Mason.

Short, Michael

Paul Baker Collection

  • BAKE
  • Collection
  • 1940s-1960s

Negatives of UK windmill photographs and newspaper cuttings. Only Nottinghamshire images have been catalogued.

Baker, Paul H J

T B Paisley Collection

  • PAIS
  • Collection
  • Early/mid 20th century

Images of UK windmills.

Paisley, Thomas Brownlee

Richard Hills Collection

  • RHSC
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century

Slides, postcards, photographs and cuttings of windmills. Slides of watermills. Slides, photographs and notes used for lectures and books.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

Niall Roberts Collection

  • ROBE
  • Collection
  • 20th century

Documents and photographs on mills throughout the world.

Roberts, Niall (1922-2010), mill enthusiast

H E S Simmons Collection

  • HESS
  • Collection
  • 1930s-1970s

Photographs of UK windmills and watermills on postcards.
Research notes on mills, both originals and photocopies produced by the Science Museum.

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Tony Yoward Collection

  • TYRN
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century - 2003

Research notes on Dorset and Hampshire watermills.

Yoward, Tony, industrial archaeologist

Douglas Pluck Collection

  • PLUC
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century

35mm slides of UK windmills and watermills.

Pluck, Douglas (d 1994)

Geoff Holman Collection

  • HOLM
  • Collection
  • 19th century - 2014

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

Ray Harlow Collection

  • RAYH
  • Collection
  • 2003 (including scans of originals from 1946, 1967 and 1999)

Photographs of Chillenden Windmill before and after its collapse. Two photographs by Rex Wailes (Gedney Dyke tower mill and Kitching's Mill, Friskney).

Harlow, Ray

James Venn Collection

  • VENN
  • Collection
  • 1894-2017

Manuscripts, research notes, documents and photographs relating to UK wind and watermills, principally Buckinghamshire. Incorporates the collection of Stanley Freese, which was bequeathed to James Venn and added to by him.

Venn, James (1921-2014)

Andrew Bisiker Collection

  • BISI
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century

Photographs and correspondence relating to UK mills.

Bisiker, Andrew, millwright

Heron Corn Mill Collection

  • HCMC
  • Collection
  • 2006

Conservation plan, access plan, archaeology report and architects drawings. Leaflets and promotional material.

Steeley, Audrey

Michael Dufau Collection

  • DUFA
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century

Photographs of UK mills. Drawings of Higher Bebington Windmill. Two spindles from cotton mills.

Dufau, Michael

Brian Eighteen Mill Collection

  • EIGH
  • Collection
  • 1834-2015

Material on watermills in the Reading area, on the Thames, Kennet and Loddon rivers.

Eighteen, Brian (1930-2015), local historian

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