Mills Archive Online

With help from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we have developed our catalogue and made it available on the Internet from September 2003.

You now have free access to:

• Documents & images via our web site.(Click here to register)
• Detailed images of photographs, field notes, printed documents, drawings, correspondence etc
• At least 7000 records at launch, including 2500 of Nottinghamshire & Dorset mills
• More than 1000 from the Rex Wailes Collection at the National Monuments Record
• More than 400 from the Muggeridge Collection at the University of Kent

• A simple way to register your interests and receive personal alerts when relevant new material is added.

• Integrated searches of our records and related ones from the NMR and the Muggeridge Collection.

• The Mill Index
  • A comprehensive set of unique references to mills and sites to ensure you find all relevant records, avoiding duplicate or fictitious ones
  • Derived from the databases developed by Tony Bryan and the Mills Research Group
  • Supplemented by databases created by others including Derek Stidder, Jim Woodward-Nutt and Tony Yoward

• The People Index
  • Linked to Mary Yoward’s database of about 30,000 millers and millwrights

• Other databases including
  • A glossary of molinology, based on that created by Tony Yoward
  • Our full library listing of books and booklets on mills and milling
  • The contents pages of major UK newsletters and journals on traditional mills