Letters between Lord Wilson and Dr Norman Smith on Roman attitudes, Vitruvius and waterwheels

CD-ROM about the Raphael project, involving the restoration of the mills at Le Moulin du Got, France; Mulin Lungo il Rio Rin, Italy; Waltham Chase Mill, UK; Copekov Mlin, Slovenia. The contents of the CD can also be viewed at http://www.ladinia.org/progetti/raffaello/welcome.html.

Single page extract from the Gwilt translation of the Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio including 'engines for raising water' and 'water-millls

This folder contains all the chapters on "The Tower Mill" and the first chapter - upto section 3 - on "The Smock Mill". The Text Contents Page should be used in conjunction with this folder.

Articles and extracts.

Scrapbook of etchings of mills in England and Europe from encyclopedias and books, including pages from "The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art". Two photographs by the Folkestone Herald and Gazette of Horn Street Mill being demolished. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 55.

Basic Sources of information on Roman Watermills assembled by Wilson

One page listing 2 sizes of hand querns and of millstones at Haltwhistle, Barbegal and Athens. Also one page of associated drawings

Research material relating to Johann Friedrich Weidler and Richard Jones, engineers who created systems for pumping water from the River Tagus to the city of Toledo, Spain, int he 18th century. Documents include a letter from Alan Smith relating to Weidler; photocopies of pages from the 16th volume of the Wren Society, 1939 relating to Richard Jones; typed notes relating to Richard Jones, along with correspondence between Stephen and Jose A Garcia-Diego, council member of the International Molinological Society; photocopy of "El Ingenio del Agua en Toledo en El Siglo XVIII" in "Anales Toledanos XIII", by Gabriel Mora del Pozo, 1980; negative and print of a an indenture agreement dated 31 August 1726 between John Taverner, John Ellis, and Richard Jones, relating to Jones's water-raising system installed in Toledo. The negative and print are copies of the original document at the Huntington Library, California.

Research material, mostly typed from Stephen Buckland's Mill Research Notebooks, photocopies from publications, and newspaper cuttings all relating to Roman boat mills and watermills and other subject matters. (The material was originally in one folder and has now been split in two).