Mills Archive Online 'Intelligent' catalogue accessible through these web pages Free on-line access to images and documents Detailed images of individual records (eg photographs, printed documents, drawings, field notes) Integrated search of several archives simultaneously Personal emails when new material specific to your interest has been added or modified Users participate in the development of the catalogue Experts to index, add commentaries and research notes to specific records The Mill Index of known mills and sites Comprehensive set of unique references Each mill or mill site in the UK (other mills and sites will be addressed later) Indexers can only assign our records to recognised mills or sites Searching finds all relevant records and avoids duplicate or fictitious mills! Derived from the wind and watermill databases that Tony Bryan has been pulling together with the Mills Research Group

Initial Catalogue based on 6 sites Our four Foundation Collections English Heritage's National Monuments Record The Muggeridge Collection at the University of Kent Two pilot counties provide at least 2850 records Digitising, cataloguing, and indexing Previously unknown images and documents Mills in Dorset and Nottinghamshire Millers from the Muggeridge Collection The People Index > 27,000+ entries and rising! Based on the databases of Millers and Millwrights from Mary & Tony Yoward Other Research Material Industrial Mills (Roy Gregory's database) Glossary of Mill Terms (Tony Yoward, SPAB) Dorset Research Notes (Martin Bodman, Tony Yoward)

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