Collection SPAB - SPAB Mills Section Collection

Gloucestershire Portrait of Rex Wailes Portrait of E M Gardner Mill files Scarthing Moor Mill, Weston Meal floor, Osberton Mill, Ranby Waterwheel, Ollerton Mill, Ollerton Overdrift stones, Ollerton Mill, Ollerton Pit gear, Scarthing Moor Mill, Weston Pit gear, Ollerton Mill, Ollerton Ollerton Mill, Ollerton Pit gear, Osberton Mill, Ranby Stone floor, Ollerton Mill, Ollerton Osberton Mill, Ranby Measured drawings, Scarthing Moor Mill, Weston Bulwick Mill, Bulwick Spur gear Castle Mill, Linby Waterwheel hub Pit gear
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Reference code

SPAB

Title

SPAB Mills Section Collection

Date(s)

  • 1920s onwards (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

212 boxes

Name of creator

(1929-present)

Administrative history

In 1929, following an article in the Daily Mail about Britain's disappearing windmills, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) launched a campaign to survey and protect England's windmills. The work was led by pioneering mill expert Rex Wailes, and soon became separate Windmill Section of the SPAB. In 1946 this became the Wind and Watermill Section, later referred to simply as the Mills Section. It still continues working to save England's historic mills today.

Repository

Archival history

From the beginning of the SPAB's attempt to survey English windmills in 1929, records were kept of mills across England, and these continued to be added to over the decades. They were supplemented by the personal collections of mill enthusiasts who left their material to the Section. The lack of space and expertise for dealing with this ever growing collection of archives was one of the main factors which prompted the establishment of the Mills Archive, and the SPAB was a supporter from the beginning, the understanding being that their archival material would be transferred to the Mills Archive, becoming one of the four foundation collections.

The bulk of the archives were transferred in February 2004. Where a set of material in the SPAB collection could be identified as having come originally from a named individual who donated their collection to the SPAB, this was treated as a separate collection in the Mills Archive catalogue (see list of related collections below). The remainder, consisting of records created by the Mills Section and miscellaneous items donated to the Section over the years, has been catalogued as the SPAB Mills Section Foundation Collection.

The Mills Section's correspondence files were retained by the Section, although listed on the Archive catalogue. They were eventually transferred in October 2015. Additional casework files were transferred in September 2022.

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Scope and content

Records of the work of the SPAB Mills Section preserving windmills and watermills. Wind and watermill related items donated to the Society.

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Conditions governing access

This collection may be consulted free of charge at the Mills Archive; please email visitors@millsarchive.org to arrange an appointment.

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Language of material

  • English

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Archivist's note

Collection level description revised by Luke Bonwick and Nathanael Hodge, 2012; and by Nathanael Hodge, 2018. Whole collection catalogued to file level by Nathanael Hodge, 2018.

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Physical storage

  • Box: SPAB Casework files 1
  • Box: SPAB Casework files 2
  • Box: SPAB Casework files 3
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  • Box: SPAB Unsorted files 1
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  • Box: SPAB Unsorted files 20
  • Box: SPAB Casework A-Z by mill box 1
  • Box: SPAB Casework A-Z by mill box 2
  • Box: SPAB Casework A-Z by mill box 3