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"

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Item
1614

Part of Richard Hills Collection

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

Abstract of title to three mills at Banbury

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Item
1652

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

5 vellum sheets (30 cm x 20 cm) providing an abstract of Mr Darnelly's title to lands in Banbury traced back to: a lease by Queen Elizabeth I to Anthony Cope of two Banbury Mills dated 7 July 1587; a conveyance of a third mill "being a Windmill" from Thomas Hawtaine (son of Henry and Mary Hawtaine) to Richard Vivers dated 18 July 1632; a deed dated 6 October [1616] under which Henry Hawtaine made a "jointure of the premises" to his wife, Mary, being "the windmill the Ivy Close b[y] the Meadow....all part of Easington Farms" which he had purchased "from the king"; a conveyance of "the Fine yard Lands at Nethrop" from Richard Cope, John Churchill and Richard Hastings to Richard Vivers dated 27 April 1616; a conveyance of "the Barns" from Thomas and Edward Kirton to Robert Vivers dated 18 June 1652. The abstract is completed with Mr Darnelly obtaining judgement in Trinity Term 1662 for £900.

"Scantlings & Dimensions of Engines, with the prices for building the same by Mr. Grundy"

REXW-WIN-01-29-007
Item
18th century

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Grundy

"Dimensions and Scantlings of a 22 Feet Post Engine (Vizt)"

REXW-WIN-01-29-004
Item
18th century

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Unknown author

"Account of Engin by Harrison Engin Maker at Spalding"

REXW-WIN-01-29-005
Item
18th century

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Harrisson, Thomas, engineer, Spalding

"Dimensions and Scantlings of a 26 Feet Post Engine"

REXW-WIN-01-29-006
Item
18th century

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Harrisson, Thomas, engineer, Spalding

Collection of documents relating to a windmill at Brook Lane, Herne Bay

MCFC-IND-075
File
30 August 1708

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Collection of documents including correspondence relating to the tenancy of Brook Lane smock mill at Herne Bay, Kent, dating from between 1708 and 1879.

'Abstract of Sir James Oxendens Settlement of Estates in Hearn'

MCFC-IND-075-001
Item
30 August 1708

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

5 pages of paper measuring approximately 41 cm x 34 cm describing Sir James Oxenden's settlement of his estate at Hearn Bay including land known as 'Underdown with one other small messuage or tenement and the Barns stables orchards Gdens & Arable Meadow and Pasture Lands...... containing in the whole by estim[ation] 160 acres more or less....And all other messuages etc sit[uate] lying & being in the Parishes of Reculver Hearn and Chislett....".

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

Twin tower mills

FWGC-1107251
Item
27 July 1723

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

"Punctuobice", Probably Devizes, Wiltshire

Detail from an oil painting, post mill, Richmond

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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

Detail of a Bed Curtain showing a post mill

JSPB-PHT-50-11
Item
1765

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Photograph copyright to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showing a detail of a bed curtain showing a post mill in their collection, accession number 87.21.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

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Item
1770

Part of Roy Gregory Collection

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

Coolham Mills Material

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Collection
2011-2012 (images of manuscripts from 1777-1863)

Scans and transcriptions of material on Coolham mills. From various sources, mostly from the Burrell Archives from Knepp Castle (Mss Acc 921/XVI/B; now at West Sussex Records Office, Chichester). Includes images of the following documents:
Abstract of title to Coolham Mills 1861
Abstract of title to wheelwrights shop shipley 1834
Abstract of Title, Baileys Fm 1861
Agreement between Killick & Joyes re Coolham Mill 1860
Assignment of Killick legacy 1851
Baileys farm & Mill, Rent Charges
Conveyance of Coolham Mills 1777
Conveyance of Coolham Mills, 1863
Conveyance, Baileys Farm 1852
Coolham Mills Requisitions on Title 1861
Copy death certificate Hannah and William Killick 1828, 1837
Copy will of William Killick 1836
Declaration of Robt harding re Wm Killick decd
Declaration Rd Halloway, Baileys Fm 1852
Declaration Wm Stepney, Baileys Fm 1852
Draft Conveyance, Baileys Fm 1861
Killick Mortgage 1855
Lease of Crowts als Thornhill 1777
Lease of wheelwrights shop 1822
Lease, Baileys farm 1860
Marriage certificate Henry Killick 1832
Sale, Baileys Farm 1861
Solemn declaration of Thos Dendy 1856
Baileys 1823 Tithe Apportionment map
35 Baileys, 1823 Tithe
Map, Baileys farm
Map of Baileys Farm, Shipley 1861
Copy baptism cert Henry Killick 1833

Symonds, Richard, archaeologist

"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