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The archive collects historical and contemporary material on mills and milling, including millwrighting and the place of the mill in social as well as technological and architectural history
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Businesses (12)
- Chesterston Windmill Chesterton, Warwickshire
- Coleshill Watermill Coleshill, Berkshire
- F T Wood and Sons, millers Birstwith, Yorkshire
- Gelder and Kitchen LLP, architects Hull, Yorkshire
- Holman Brothers Ltd, general engineers and millwrights Canterbury, Kent
- J & R Snodgrass Ltd, flour millers, Washington, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- James Bowman & Sons Ltd, mill owners, Hitchin
- Joseph J Armfield & Co Ltd, engineers and millwrights Ringwood, Hampshire
- Over family, millers, Berkshire and elsewhere Sonning, Berkshire
- Owlsworth IJP Ltd., millwrights and building restorers, Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Rank Hovis McDougall Ltd, flour millers and bakers Deptford, Kent
- Thompson family, millers
Organisations (6)
Persons (25)
- Blythman, Guy, (fl 1969-2018), mills researcher
- Booth, D Timothy N, (d2022), mill enthusiast
- Boyes, John, (1914-2013), senior factory inspector, industrial archaeologist
- Bryan, Anthony, (fl 1966-2009), molinologist
- Crawford, John Brian, (1924-2011), blanket maker and mill enthusiast
- Eighteen, Brian, (1930-2015), local historian
- Elliott, David, (fl1970-2023), Professor of Technology Policy, expert in renewable energy
- Farries, Kenneth George, (fl1922-1987), author
- Goatcher, Edgar, (d 2015), local historian
- Gregory, Roy, (fl c1991-2006), author and mill researcher
- Harverson, Michael, (1937-2017), mills researcher
- Jarvis, Paul S, (1926-2004), engineer
- Lines, Vincent Henry, (1909-1968), artist Dulwich, Surrey
- Major, John Kenneth, (1928-2009), architect, author and industrial archaeologist
- Muggeridge, Donald William, (1918-2015), researcher of windmills
- Muggeridge, William Burrell, (1884-1978), photographer and researcher of windmills
- Munnings, John, (1916-1987), artist
- Musgrove, Peter, (c1970-2023), wind power expert and advocate
- Nicholls, David, (fl 1960-2010), millwright
- Pargeter, Vincent G, (fl 2000), miller and millwright
- Stoyel, Alan, (1939-2021), watermill researcher
- Venn, James Herbert, (1921-2014), photographer and mill researcher Maidenhead, Berkshire
- Wailes, Reginald, (1901-1986), consultant engineer and millwright
- Wallis, Christopher Louden, (1935-2006), civil engineer and conservationist
- Wood, Karl Salsbury, (1888-1958), artist
Diaries (18)
- Barrow, Brendan, (fl 1999), turbine engineer, mill enthusiast Berkshire
- Gifford, Alan, (fl 2008-2013), mill researcher Derbyshire
- Gregory, Dennis, (fl c1950-1999), miller
- Hawksley, G Jeffrey, (fl 1995-2003), mill enthusiast
- Hay, Tom, (fl 1933-2008), mill researcher
- Luker, Brian G, (fl c2002-2015), local historian
- Marsh, Ian, (fl 2011), mill researcher Bracknell, Berkshire
- Morris, Neil, (fl 2000), mill researcher Chartham, Kent
- Ogden, Derek, (fl c1965-2010), millwright
- Pearce, David L, (fl 1995-2014), engineer
- Pelling, John, (fl c 1930-2007), mill enthusiast
- Preece, Ken, (fl c1950-1975), photographer
- Rowat, Barbara, (fl 1990), mill enthusiast
- Sass, Jon A, (fl c1990), miller and millwright
- Shepherd, Andrew, (fl 2006-2013), family historian Cumbria
- Smith, Roland W, (fl c1975-2000), mill enthusiast
- Symonds, Richard, (fl c2000), field archaeologist Coolham, Sussex
- Yoward, Tony, (fl 1990), industrial archaeologist
Families (1)
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