Prints, negatives and 35mm slides of Kent windmills relating to Peter Cobley's time as conservation architect for Kent County Council. Drawings of Herne mill.
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.
Photographs and survey drawings created by Collins and Burrell shortly before the mill's demolition for a coursework project at the Northern Polytechnic School of Architecture.
Drawings and correspondence re. mill conversion projects: Stamford Bridge Mill, Yorkshire; Paines Flour Mill, St Neots; Swaffham Prior smockmill. Dutch steel windmill sail stock blueprints. Report 'An investigation into the failure of a steel windmill stock'. SPOOM list of UK mills. Information on flour dust causing asthma. Printouts of North Yorkshire and Norfolk site and monument records.
Display boards from the Molinological Conference ('Molicon'), 1979. Copies of drawings of Wrawby post mill by C T G B, 1968. Three films:UK windmills inc Paxton and Bourne, 1968; Denmark windmills, May 1974; Blakedown Forge, Churchill, Worcestershire, July 1971.
