Collection of documents including correspondence relating to the tenancy of Brook Lane smock mill at Herne Bay, Kent, dating from between 1708 and 1879.
Photographs of Majorca Noria by W Ware; German mills by Hubert Kuhn and Frank Tonsman; French mills by Mildred Cookson; Welsh mills by Mildred Cookson and Alan Foster; Austrian mills by M S Field; photos by F W Gregory; Netherlands mills.
The remains of the mill following a tailwinding on 2nd December 1919. Postcard shows local boys posed on the remains of the cap which has landed upside down.
Part of an old stereocard. Photo shows a mill in Canterbury which was variously known as Dean's, Hooker's or Shafford's Mill. It was considerably modified after this picture was taken, and continued working until it was burnt down in 1954. Latterly turbine-driven, It was a powerful mill, formerly having two waterwheels and 8 pairs of stones. A new building now occupies the site. I would expect the photograph to date from about the 1860s (Notes from Alan Stoyel, 2007)
Notes from Alan Stoyel, 2007: By the time I first visited the mill, in 1954, all the corrugated iron had been removed, but it was still there in about 1937. The strange shape of this cladding is because it covers two waterwheels; a fairly large diameter breast wheel against the mill wall, and a wide overshot wheel of small diameter to the right of it and further downstream (towards the camera). The shaft of the overshot wheel passed across thre tailrace of the breast wheel and into the mill. Each wheel drove 2 pairs of stones. The mill is now a gutted house conversion, although the frame of the overshot wheel was still in place when I saw the place last.
Certificate from Kent Fire Office, purchased by Mrs Marriott of Horsmonden, Kent - presumably the owner, on 21st January 1815. Miller was William Woollett. Witnessing the insurance purchase were A. W. Swain, Mr Day, John Spring and Geo. Bishop - the latter three were the company directors.
Economise by using "Uveco" Poultry Food. East and West End Mills, Smarden. Thomas Cornes, Miller, Cornfactor, Baker and Confectioner. Billhead Addressed to Mr F Wise, 22 April 1912.
"Harold H. Clark, Miller and Corn Merchant, Eastry Mills. Poultry Mixtures, Barley, Meal, Bran, Sharps, andc." To Lady Lyall, January 1933. See also item 24450.