Black and white photographs and 35mm slides depicting windmills in 17 UK counties. Field notes, windmill descriptions, magazine articles and cuttings, original text and photos for the County Windmills series, correspondence.
Smith, Arthur C
Papers, slides, postcards, field and research notes and other material on mills, particularly focusing on industrial windmills.
Gregory, Roy (d 2013) author and mill researcher
Material relating to the history of Oldland Mill, Keymer. Includes:
Electronic copy of 1927-33 minute book of Oldland Mill Committee
Minutes and agendas of the Oldland Mill Committee of the Hassocks Amenity Association, 1980-2000, and digital copies
Architectural drawings of mill (2 rolls, 1 A3 vol)
Copy of 1934 issue of 'Sussex County Magazine' with article on the mill.
Digital copy of 1980 report on mill by Vincent Pargeter
DVDs showing mill refurbishment
Correspondence files 1976-1990
Copies of 1897 and 1957 deeds
Press cuttings
Copies of magazines with articles relating to Oldland Mill
Digitised photographs
Oldland Mill Trust
35mm slides of Sussex, Norfolk and Surrey windmills. Print photos.
Tremenheere, Wynn (1923-2015), chairman of Cranbrook Windmill Association
Legal deeds and other items relating to the Soundy family of millers and The Abbey Mills, Reading.
Soundy family, millers
35mm slides of UK mills
Wilson, Graham Christopher, miller and millwright
Press cuttings relating to windmills and watermills.
The Mills Archive
Images and documents of English watermills. Includes many photographic prints and some handwritten notes.
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
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
Files of reports, correspondence and other documents relating to UK millwrighting projects between 1965 and 1980 and US millwrighting projects between 1976 and 2012. Includes working drawings and photographs
Ogden, Derek, millwright
Images of Surrey and Sussex watermills, many of which have appeared in books by Derek Stidder, research on UK mills.
Stidder, Derek (1950-2017)
Records of Holman Brothers Ltd, including ledgers, wage books, photographs, trade catalogues, correspondence, plans and other documents dating from the 19th century to 1975. These relate largely to ploughing and threshing, but also to millwrighting. To this Geoff Holman has added material he created or collected from the late 20th century to the 2000s relating to his research into the firm and his wider interest in wind and water mills. This includes photographs of mills, digital and paper drafts of a book on Holman Brothers and related research, and digital files on mills, mainly those in Kent.
Holman, Geoffrey Richard (1937-2011), photographer and mill enthusiast
Brian Eighteen Mill Collection
Material on watermills in the Reading area, on the Thames, Kennet and Loddon rivers.
Eighteen, Brian (1930-2015), local historian
Albums of UK windmill photos. Photo of Ken Preece and short biography.
Preece, Ken, photographer
Heage Windmill Society photographic archive
Photographs relating to the history of Heage Windmill, mainly relating to the restoration carried out in 2000-2002.
Gifford, Alan
Items created or collected by the Cornwell family relating to their work as millers.
Cornwell, Guy (d 2016)
Items relating to Hovis and the careers of managing director John Figgins Morton and his family.
Morton, Robert
Documents and photographs on mills throughout the world.
Roberts, Niall (1922-2010), mill enthusiast
Photographs of UK windmills and watermills on postcards.
Research notes on mills, both originals and photocopies produced by the Science Museum.
Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher
Manuscripts, research notes, documents and photographs relating to UK wind and watermills, principally Buckinghamshire. Incorporates the collection of Stanley Freese, which was bequeathed to James Venn and added to by him.
Venn, James (1921-2014)