Steam mills

Remains of sack hoist, Hatfield Heath mill

SMDN-2013.0023-04
Item
12 March 2013

Part of Small Donations

Ferenczi, Adam

Hatfield Heath mill

SMDN-2013.0023-03
Item
20 June 2012

Part of Small Donations

Ferenczi, Adam

Hatfield Heath mill

SMDN-2013.0023-02
Item
20 June 2012

Part of Small Donations

Ferenczi, Adam

Hatfield Heath mill

SMDN-2013.0023-01
Item
20 June 2012

Part of Small Donations

Ferenczi, Adam

Albion Mill, Blackfriars, London

MWAT-018
Item
c. 1850

Part of Martin Watts Collection

Albion Mill, Blackfriars, London, the world’s first steam-powered flour factory.

Watts, Martin, miller and millwright

Prewett’s Mill, Horsham

EMGC-05-01-131
Item
1940s - 1950s

Part of E M Gardner Collection

Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)

Mill sales particulars

SMDN-2016.0009
File
1861-1930

Part of Small Donations

Sales particulars for the following:
London Silk Mill, Leek, 1861.
Two windmills in Blean, Canterbury, 1901.
The Culverton Mill estate, Princes Risborough, 1903.
Properties including Titton Mill, Stourport, 1930.

Booth, D Timothy N (1946-2002), miller

Memoirs of John Wilkins, miller at Bourton-on-the-Water

SMDN-2008.0011
File
Notes edited and typed up 1998 from handwritten notes made c 1947. Photos June 2008.

Part of Small Donations

Edited printed version by Timothy Burden of his great uncle John H Wilkin's notes on the history of the Wilkins family, millers at Bourton-on-the-Water. Three photos of the buildings mentioned in the history from June 2008.

Burden, Timothy

"Historic town mill wrecked by blaze"

CUTT-03463
Item
20 November 1992

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Piece in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' about the fire that destroyed Mauldens Mill in Framlingham, Suffolk.

Three Bridges Sussex

SPAB-BAS-368
File
No date

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

"No sails in the sunset for Stafford's old 'windmill' "

CUTT-02646
Item
28 September 1973

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Stafford Newsletter' about the objections by a Mr Kenneth Chaplain to the Royal Naval Association's plan to fit sails onto the windmill at Broad Eye in Stafford, since his family had always driven it by steam.

The derelict Steam Mill at Upminster during demolition

FUWA-01087
Item
c 1960

Part of Friends of Upminster Windmill Archive

The single fire tube boiler shell and the absence of additional smoke tubes identifies it as a brick-set Cornish style boiler. The brick-set under flues can be seen to each side. The end of the boiler as seen here protruded into a coal house for ease of stoking.

Star & Compton Mills, Roffey, Horsham sketch plan

HESS-MAP-78
Item
2 June 1935

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

Steam mill grinding house at Upminster

FUWA-01099
Item
c 1935-39

Part of Friends of Upminster Windmill Archive

Clearly seen are the gears and mechanisms of the drive train, the millstones, sack hoist, and one of two grain bins. This picture is thought to have been taken by Rex Wailes.

Boulton and Watt engine in the steam mill at Upminster

FUWA-01104
Item
c 1935-40

Part of Friends of Upminster Windmill Archive

The engine in the steam mill at Upminster was manufactured by Matthew Boulton and James Watt at their Soho works in Birmingham. It was a modified Bell Crank engine rated at 6 hp and had a 10ft diameter flywheel. It drove two pairs of millstones and the drive shaft was extended into the windmill to run auxiliary machinery. This picture is thought to have been taken by Rex Wailes.

Interior of the Upminster Steam Mill

FUWA-02969
Item
2014

Part of Friends of Upminster Windmill Archive

Image from a 3D computer model showing the interior of the Steam Mill and Meal House as they probably looked. Details have been taken from old photographs and archaeological evidence. An animated version of this model can be seen on YouTube