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Fen Drainage Mill - drawing

RHSC-01-01-171
Item
1652 (copy)

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Drawing of a fen drainage mill taken from 'The English Improver Improved' 1652.

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

"Hydraulique, Moulin à Eau"

MCFC-ENG-041
Item
18th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Benard, Robert (1734-1777), engraver

"Hydraulique, Moulin à Eau"

MCFC-ENG-040
Item
18th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Benard, Robert (1734-1777), engraver

Photo of a 1710 map of Clerkenwell, London showing a windmill at the New River Pool

REXW-IMG-05-270
Item
1710 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

"From Crace [?]. A later edition of Morgan's Map c 1710".

Unknown photographer

Hull - Humber Bank tower mill

ROYG-IMG-01-205
Item
1770

Part of Roy Gregory Collection

Drawing of Humber Bank Mill with the town and church in the background.

"Mr Harmer's Machine for Dressing Woollen-Cloth &c"

MCFC-ENG-021
Item
c 1776 - 1826

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Mutlow, Henry (c 1756-1826), engraver and publisher

A drawing of Faringdon and neighbouring places with churches marked accordingly

READ-1391369
Item
c.1790

Part of Reading Central Library Images

View over Faringdon from Faringdon Hill, with Badbury Hill behind the town, and Lechlade, Cricklade and Cirencester in the distance. There is a windmill on Badbury Hill, and the various places of worship in Faringdon are denoted by numbers.

Advert in Derby Mercury to build Heage Tower Mill

GIFF-HWS-01-12
Item
1791 (digital copy)

Part of Heage Windmill Society photographic archive

Alan Gifford comments: "This is the earliest mention of a Tower mill at Heage contained in an advert in the Derby Mercury 16th June 1791 . Note that it refers to 'Materials laid down on site' - stone for tower was in adjacent quarry."

Sleaford Windmill Exterior-working

DOLM-09370
Item
Photograph of engraving from 1798

Part of Peter Dolman Collection

Copy by P. Dolman (LMA) of Sleaford windmill when in working order. Photograph of engraving.

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

Union mill, Beverley

ROYG-IMG-01-177
Item
After 1799

Part of Roy Gregory Collection

Old Dock Mill (Society Mill), Portsmouth

REXW-IMG-01-262
Item
Early 19th century

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
This print shows the Society Mill, also known as Old Dock Mill, Portsmouth. This was built in 1798 and demolished in 1867. In 1816 the Dock Mill was built to replace it while the structure remained. The old mill was topped by a 20 foot statue of the goddess Ceres and this may be seen in the picture.

Rose Hill Mill, Brighton, photograph of watercolour

FWGC-1111678
Item
? 19th century

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher

Rose Hill Mill, Brighton, photograph of watercolour

FWGC-1111679
Item
? 19th century

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher

Johnson's Mill, Higher Bebington

EMAS-C-004
Item
19th century

Part of E Mitford Abraham Glass Slides

Abraham, Edward Mitford (1882-1959)

Watercolour of two French windmills

JSPB-ART-25
Item
19th century

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

c19th century watercolour of a French landscape with a post mill and tower mill. A miller is climbing the stairs to the post mill whilst villagers socialise on the roadside.

Unknown artist

Subscription Mill, Kingston-upon-Hull

ROYG-IMG-01-172
Item
1800

Part of Roy Gregory Collection

An illustration of the New Subscription Mill at Kingston-upon-Hull from 1800

Photograph of painting of Liverpool windmill

SMDN-2021.0005-02
Item
c 1812 (copy from 2021)

Part of Small Donations

Whitelaw, David

Various types of mill

MCFC-ENG-008
Item
1817

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis.

Encyclopaedia Londinensis

Photograph of drawing of two windmills

PAIS-B-005
Item
Copy of original from 1820

Part of T B Paisley Collection

Paisley, Thomas Brownlee (1916-1980)

Mills at Wisbech

REXW-IMG-01-284
Item
Before 1846

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Photograph of an oval painting showing a river and townscape and a number of mills and churches. Signed JC Sargeant? 1848.
The white post mill is Webster’s mill (demolished between 1887 and 1895) and the black open trestle mill without sails is Bell’s mill (last known to be standing in 1846), both in Leverington Road.

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