Archive Catalogue

"Fosdike Windmill, 1604"

RHSC-04-029
Item
1604

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Hayward's map showing location of mill.

"Brueghel - view of a post mill"

RHSC-01-01-010
Item
1614

Part of Richard Hills Collection

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

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

Detail from an oil painting, post mill, Richmond

KGFC-GPN-E-077
Item
No date (copy of painting from c 1730)

Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection

Farries, Kenneth G, author

"The Windmill fixed on Newgate to work the Ventilators erected there April 17: 1752"

MCFC-ENG-011
Item
April 1752

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Gentleman's Magazine, The

Saw mill engraving

SMDN-2021-0024
Item
1769

Part of Small Donations

Depicting the wind-powered saw mill constructed by Charles Dingley at Limehouse in 1767. It was opposed by local sawyers who believed it was undercutting their work and it was badly damaged by rioters on 10 May 1768. A copy of article "Charles DIngley, projector, and his Limehouse sawmill" by John H Appleby also included.

The Oxford Magazine

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.

"The Camp at Cox Heath"

SPAB-WIS-BERKS-04
Item
1778 (copy)

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Photograph from Victoria and Albert Museum of painting "The Camp at Cox Heath" by Sandby, showing post mill. It is not clear why this has been filed with the Berkshire material.

Sandby, Thomas (1721-1798), painter

Design for altering Hankells Iron Hoop Mill at Wandsworth

ASHL-25-005
Item
1779

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century.

Tentatively identified as Middle Mill, Wandsworth.

Smeaton, John (1724-1792), engineer

"Abbey Mill, on the road to Westham, Essex"

ASFC-ART-015
Item
1780s

Part of Alan Stoyel Foundation Collection

Unknown artist

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."

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.