"The Silence of a Caribbean mill"
One-page, creative narrative describing the sounds of an imagined day of work at a Caribbean sugar mill. This piece was written for the Mills Archive's "Mill Memories" referenced below.
Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright
Project in progress - photographs
6 images of the restoration project in progress (c.1994), 4 of which printed onto standard A4 paper and 2 printed onto A4 photographic paper. The final image (again, printed onto standard A4 paper) is of the aftermath of a storm in 2008, after which the sails were taken down and restored in 2009.
Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright
Morgan Lewis Mill, St Andrew, Barbados
Part of Niall Roberts Collection
Postcard of Morgan Lewis Mill, St Andrew, Barbados
Part of Niall Roberts Collection
Number DC29. Printed in Barbados by Letchworth Press Limited. Photo by Alric Gaskin.
Posters - The Amy Nicholls Mill Competition
1 x 43 cm by 27.5 cm and 1 x 32.5 cm by 25.5 cm poster aimed at community and educational groups encouraging entries into a competition to research and record information about the remaining mill sites on Barbados. Sponsored by the Chiltern Partnership, the Barbados National Trust and the Barbados Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture.
Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright
Sugar mill, Codrington College, Barbados
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Postcard of Morgan Lewis Mill, Barbados
Part of Niall Roberts Collection
"Old Mill, Barbados, West Indies. Published by Sunshine Ltd., Barbados, West Indies". (Photograph used as an illustration in "Some Caribbean Sugar Mills", TIMS 8, 1993).
Photograph - "New Castle Plant, St. John"
A 1981 print of an earlier photograph of "New Castle Plantation St John", marked "CR Webster" on the reverse (Nicholls having consulted with a Colin Webster on the Morgan Lewis sugar mill restoration). The note on the reverse continues, "This Steam Engine was the first to operate as a sugar factory in the early 1900".
Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright
Mill working with people, Barbados
Writing on card says "USS N Dakota Feb 15 1920"
Unknown photographer
"Sugar Cane Mill, Copyright March 1906"
Cooper, W G
"Barbados - Sugar Estata"
Knight and Co. A-Series of 24. Windmills used for part of the year to grind sugar cane
Unknown photographer
Muscovado Sugar Works Mill, Barbados, and building complex, Barbados
Collins Carlisle Pharmacy Publ.
Unknown photographer
Distant view of sugar mill in Barbados
Coloured black and white card
Unknown photographer
Unknown photographer
J. R. H. Seifert and Co, Barbados. Sugar cane is crushed by this windmill in the Caribbean
Unknown photographer
Sugar Cane Mill, Barbados.
J R H Seifert and Co.
"This is the old kind of sugar mill that has been gradually replaced by steam mills." (Miss Sanderson)
Posted March 1905
Unknown photographer
Sugar Works, Barbados, Crushing Mill
W. L. Johnson and Co Ltd
Unknown photographer