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]
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
Photographic material, notes and ephemera on windmills and watermills in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Photos of 141 UK mills, mostly in the south. Some exist in negative only, some in print only and some in both. They have been scanned by M Hardy prior to passing to the archive. Scans are available in original and edited form (removal of scratches etc).
Photographs of English windmills. Four pastel drawings by P B Adnams, 1926, showing Upton Mill, near Ryde, Isle of Wight; Peg Mill, Ashurst, Sussex; Smock Mill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire; Peg Mill, Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire.