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Kenneth G Farries Collection

  • KGFC
  • Collection
  • 20th century

Images and field notes covering specific mills in detail. Particular coverage of Surrey, Greater London and Essex. Parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries. The remainder is listed in the attached PDF.

Farries, Kenneth G, author

Press Cuttings Collection

  • CUTT
  • Collection
  • Early 20th century - 2015

Press cuttings relating to windmills and watermills.

The Mills Archive

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

David Nicholls (Millwright) Collection

  • NICH
  • Collection
  • 1960s to 2018

Photographs, negatives, reports and research notes on UK wind and watermills. Photographs and research material on sugar mills in the Caribbean by David Nicholls and Cyril McCoombe. Micro tapes of conversations with mill workers in Barbados. [3.3.1 To be completed]

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

  • MCFC
  • Collection
  • 18th century - present

UK and foreign Mills. Emphasis on wind-powered sites in the UK, Europe and North America.

Cookson, Mildred M, miller

P N Wilson Collection

  • PNWC
  • Collection
  • c 1800 - 1980

Collection of slides, photographs, documents and correspondence on UK and US water-powered sites.

Wilson, Lord Paul Norman, Baron of High Wray

Peter Dolman Collection

  • DOLM
  • Collection
  • c 1900 - 2002

Collection of windmill and watermill photographs, drawings, research notes, correspondence and other documents relating to UK mills, with particular emphasis on the regions of Bedfordshire, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. Includes research on Whitmore and Binyon Ltd, millwrights and engineers.

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

Guy Blythman Collection

  • GUYB
  • Collection
  • 1969-2006

Photographs of UK windmills. Photographic register of English windmills and related correspondence. Correspondence 1970s-1990s. Letters from H S R Hawksley. Correspondence re windmills and watermills of Middlesex

Blythman, Guy

The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

  • MMAC
  • Collection
  • 1890s-1980s

Records of the National Association of British and Irish Millers (NABIM, renamed UK Flour Millers) and the Millers' Mutual Association. Records include minutes of NABIM, MMA, the Flour Milling Employers Federation, the National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour Milling Industry and other bodies; deeds of purchase for mills; patents; accounts and financial documents; policies; cereal stock forms; photographs.

Millers' Mutual Association

Peter Musgrove Collection

  • MUSG
  • fonds
  • Late 20th century-2023

The fonds contains a variety of media, including correspondence, publicity materials, press cuttings and press releases, photographs and reports. Most of the material covers the 1970s -1990s and includes information about wind technology for electricity generation in the UK as well as in other countries, particularly Denmark and the USA, as well as smaller amounts relating to other countries around the world. The records provide important insight into a number of organisations such as the British Wind Energy Association, National Windpower, the Wind Energy Group, the Intermediate Technology Development Group and the Central Electricity Generating Board, as well as information about projects and individuals interested in renewable energy in different universities, mainly in the UK.

Musgrove, Peter

Tom Hine Collection

  • HINE
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century - 2015

Card Index comprising 30k millers. Index of mills by county. Ringbinders of letters to Tom Hine in response to his article in Family Tree Magazine re. his index of mills and millers.

Brent Mill. Extracts from "The Story of Watling Street and The Brent" by Sidney Keyes. Old b/w photo of the mill; noted taken in 1885; demolished 1901; sent to Tom Hine by Tony Brown and Janet Capan Brown March 1999.

Transcript of Indenture for Sellinge Windmill transcribed by Jenny Paterson between owner and millwright /builder of the mill.

Barking Abbey & Tamworth Mill excavations. Copy report by Kenneth MacGowan supplied by Thames Valley Archaeological Services.

Hagbourne Mill Oxon. Copy Preliminary Building Investigation Report & Recording by Queenpost Building Histories.

2 photos of waterwheel at York Castle museum.

Hine, Tom Mann

Harry Meyer Collection

  • MEYE
  • Collection
  • 1895 - 1982

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, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Alan Stoyel Foundation Collection

  • ASFC
  • Collection
  • 16th century - 2021

Research notes and photographs on UK watermills and other milling related subjects.

Stoyel, Alan (1939 – 2021), watermill researcher

Milling Oral Histories Collection

  • MOHC
  • Collection
  • 2023

Recordings and transcripts of recordings of interviews with individuals regarding their involvment with milling.

The Mills Archive

North Leverton Windmill Archive

  • NLWA
  • Collection
  • 1812-2010s

Deeds, minutes, correspondence, cuttings, photos and ephemera relating to the mill.

North Leverton Subscription Mill Company

John Bedington Collection

  • JBED
  • Collection
  • 1960s - 2023

Photographic material, notes and ephemera on windmills and watermills in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.

Bedington, John, mill enthusiast

David Elliott Collection

  • ELLI
  • Collection
  • Late 20th century - 2023

Papers on renewable energy and energy policy, slides of renewable energy technologies.

Elliott, David, renewable energy professor

David H Jones Collection

  • DHJC
  • Collection
  • 20th century

Photographs of English and Welsh watermills. Index cards re mills in Denmark and Scotland, containing only name, location and Jespersen's international mill index serial number.

Jones, David H (1926-2023)

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