Material on the mills of the Isle of Wight.

Images, correspondence, presscuttings, leaflets, notebooks and legal deeds relating to English windmills. The collection includes material created by Martin T Mason and T J Mason.

Print photographs of windmills in the UK, including Houghton Conquest, 1975; Thurleigh, 1975; Upper Dean, 1975; Bourn, 1976; Biscot Mill (taken from 'Old Luton' 1900); Stevington, 1975/6; Madingley, 1976; Pitstone, no date; Post Mill, Ivinghoe, 1950.

Slides, mainly 1970s, East Anglia, Midlands and France.

Records dating from the 20th century, predominantly the late 20th century (1960-1999), relating to windmills, watermills, and tide mills, millwrighting, and milling industries across the United States of America (predominantly Virginia, also Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, New York, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont), Canada (Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Alberta) and the Caribbean (Antigua, Barbados, Martinque) as well as some material on UK mills (Lincolnshire, Kent, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Suffolk, Cambridheshire, Essex, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Sussex, and Surrey). The North American files contain largely published material in original or photocopied form, as well as ephemera from various mills, correspondence, and research notes. Files of particular interest include SASS-03-04 on Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, SASS-03-14 containing drawings of Hershey’s cocoa melangeurs, SASS-03-20 relating to Paul Flory’s millstone collection, and SASS-03-25 containing research used in writing “The Versatile Millstone etc”.

Photographs, negatives, 35mm slides and postcards of mills in North America and the Caribbean (predominantly the late 20th century (1960-1999)) with particular interest in SASS-04-81 containing photographs and slides of Paul Flory’s millstone collection. Additionally 35mm slides of mills in the UK covering the 1960s and 1970s.

Other records include plans of windmill, watermill and tide mills in Long Island, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Business records in the form of daybooks and ledgers pertaining to Reeson's Combined Mill, Hibaldstow (1902-1971) and Tickencote Watermill (1879-1956). The Hibaldstow Mill records relate to the tenure of the Reeson family owning the mill, whilst the Tickencote Mill records are less intact. Both sets provide valuable historical information into the business dealings and working period of the mills.

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.

Slides of UK wind and watermills.

Scans of photographs of Kent watermills

A3 copies of architectural drawings. Copy of article from 'Sussex Industrial History' on Rottingdean Mill.

Slides, postcards, photographs and cuttings of windmills. Slides of watermills. Slides, photographs and notes used for lectures and books.

Material generated by the English Heritage/Mills Archive project "Flour Milling: The Roller Milling Revolution". Includes large volume, "Master list of researched and located mills", report "Roller Flour Mills in England" and related digital material.

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.

Photograph albums containing photographs of English windmills. These are mostly from Lincolnshire, with some from Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk and Nottinghamshire.

Scans of images of mills in the library's local studies collection.

Photographs of Chillenden Windmill before and after its collapse. Two photographs by Rex Wailes (Gedney Dyke tower mill and Kitching's Mill, Friskney).

Photographs of UK mills.