- CUTT-00847
- Item
- Spring 1953
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'Essex Countryside' of a submission by S. C. Brooks detailing the ownership of the mill under the Brooks family.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'Essex Countryside' of a submission by S. C. Brooks detailing the ownership of the mill under the Brooks family.
"A family of millers in the Isle of Axholme"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'Doncaster Chronicle' describing the history of Burnham Mill under the Wilkinson family. The article outlines the start of the milling business under Jabez Wilkinson, and details the mill's consequent operation under various members of the m#family. It also contains a profile on Fred Wilkinson, a miller, and his regret about the diminishing number of mills in the local area. It also explains that Fred Wilkinson had to remove the sails and operate the mill by an oil engine due to lack of demand.
Alfred Hone at City Mills, Ely
Part of Family History Communications
Donated by Lyn Cottrell. Believed taken in the 1890s at City mills, Ely, Cambridgeshire, where Alfred Hone is listed as miller in 1892 and 1900. The photograph shows Alfred's second wife Emily, his daughters from his first marriage, Maude and Nellie, and his stepson William. Alfred's first wife died in 1892.
Unknown photographer
Arthur Pratt French and Edwin French
Part of Michael French Collection
Sepia photograph of Arthur Pratt French and Edwin French at French's Mill, Chesterton.
French, Michael, mill owner
Arthur Pratt French, Funeral notice of
Part of Michael French Collection
A digital image of a newspaper cutting reporting on the funeral of Arthur Pratt French on 26 April 1923.
French, Michael, mill owner
Base with Boy, Ovenden's Mill, Polegate
Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection
Photograph showing the base of Ovenden's Mill in Polegate, East Sussex. A small boy is present by the outbuilding; this could be one of KGF's children (possibly Nicholas Farries), or another. Photographed by Kenneth G. Farries on 23rd May 1959.
Farries, Kenneth G, author
Biographies of the millers of the French family
Part of Michael French Collection
Brief biographies of Thomas, William, Arthur Pratt, Edwin, Roger and Alfred French and Bill Mead.
French, Michael, mill owner
Brixton Windmill, the Wandle Mills, and the Ashbys (unpublished)
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Four folders containing the typescript, figures and illustrations, research notes and photographs, for the unpublished work, by Stephen Buckland, entitled "Brixton Windmill, the Wandle Mills, and the Ashbys". Includes family history and biographical material on the Ashby family.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
"Bygone days recalled by miller's daughter"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'West Sussex Gazette' of an article by Phyllis Catt, daughter of John Gwillim, a miller at North Mill at Midhurst. The article goes over Mrs. Catt's memories of growing up at the mill and her father's role as a miller there.
Chesterton Mill and Edwin and Maud French with Major
Part of Michael French Collection
Black and white image of Chesterton Mill viewed from the front of the Mill House with Edwin and Edith French with their dog, Major. The Mill Office and Granary are on the left.
French, Michael, mill owner
Children in Derelict Shell, tower mill, Nutbourne
Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection
Photograph showing some children (possibly K.G.F.'s children) standing inside the derelict tower mill shell of Nutbourne Mill in Nutbourne, West Sussex. Photographed by Kenneth G. Farries on 17th May 1959.
Farries, Kenneth G, author
Part of Family History Communications
Information on William Frederick Clark (d. 1876) and his son Charles Frederick Clark. Includes a transciption of the inquest into the death of George Clark on 21 March 1864
Hague, Maureen
Part of Family History Communications
A family history of the Clarke family of Suffolk, from 1780 to the early 1900s
Johansen, Diane
Collection of Newspaper Cuttings
Part of Michael French Collection
A collection of 10 newspaper cuttings. 8 are related to Chesterton Mills and the French family. One is related to the restoration of Bourn Windmill and a second is related to Turner's Milling Engineers of Ipswich.
French, Michael, mill owner
Part of Family History Communications
Information on the Dawson family of millers from Cambridgeshire, 1827-1901. The following note was received from Mike Miles, June 2008: "With reference to the Dawson Family at Bourn Windmill....The Mill that they had was in the Broadway, they did not have the Famous Post Mill in Caxton Road. The Dawsons were ancestors of my Wife (nee Dawson). Mill House still exists in the Broadway (No. 49), but I have not seen it. The Dawsons had the mill from about 1880 until at least 1916."
Pedersen, Shirley
Dennis Ayling, Terwick Mill, Rogate
Part of E M Gardner Collection
The younger son of the miller Frank Ayling.
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
Directors and guests taking lunch on the green
Part of Peter Dolman Collection
Appears to be the directors of Cranfield Brothers Limited and their guests taking lunch and meeting on the green next to a manor house. The man in the center of the the three men to the left, appears to Mr S Armstrong (Managing Director of Cranfield Brothers Limited).
H P Robinson & Son
Downs Mill, Bexhill, derelict with child
Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection
Photograph showing a child (Possibly one of KGF's children or a child related to the Hoad Family at Bexhill) standing in front of the derelict post mill at Down's Mill (also known as Hoad's Mill) in Bexhill, East Sussex. Photographed by Kenneth G. Farries
Farries, Kenneth G, author
Downs Mill, Bexhill, derelict with child
Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection
Second photograph showing the child (possibly one of KGF's children or a child related to the Hoad Family) standing in front of the derelict post mill at Down's Mill (also known as Hoad's Mill) in Bexhill, East Sussex. Photographed by Kenneth G. Farries o
Farries, Kenneth G, author
Downs Mill, Bexhill, derelict with child and donkey
Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection
Photograph showing a child (possibly one of KGF's children or a member of the Hoad Family) with a donkey, with the derelict post mill at Down's Mill (also known as Hoad's Mill) in Bexhill, East Sussex in the background. Photographed by Kenneth G. Farries
Farries, Kenneth G, author