Extensive collection of notes, images and drawings relating to wind and water, with emphasis on North West England and North Wales. Some parts have been given individual catalogue entries, the remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Documentation from patent cases Buhler AG v Satake UK, 1996, for which Bryan McGee was a defendant witness, and Buhler AG v FP Spomax SA, 2008, for which he was an expert witness. Diagrams giving history of milling businesses. Correspondence with Glyn Jones, 1999-2005. Correspondence with G Highley Sugden. Presentations from conference 'The Science of Wheat and Milling' (Feb 2006, Leuven, Belgium) - includes useful flowchart showing history of mill engineering firms. Miscellaneous correspondence, photocopies, cuttings and other items re. history of roller milling. McGee's Technological Examination Prize medal from City & Guilds of London. Roller mill machinery manufacturer's nameplates.
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.
Photographs, site notes and excerpts from published material mounted in albums relating to mills in Kent and elsewhere. The watermill photographs by Jean Weir and the windmill photographs by Jack Hodges form the two main subcollections.
Survey of watermills in Gloucestershire and other counties with related photographs and notes. Files of SPAB watermill survey forms filled out by G M Davies were included as GMDC-02 and GMDC-04, but are now catalogued as part of the SPAB watermill survey (SPAB-WAS).
Notebooks, correspondence, published and unpublished work, photographs, postcards and photocopies from publications; relating to wind and water mills from the UK and around the world.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
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.
Shorland-Ball, Rob, museums and heritage consultant
