Mills, Millers and The Mills Archive

An illustrated article by Ron Cookson and Simon Hudson appears in the September edition of Family History Monthly summarising the family history value of the Mills Archive. You can either read the article in the magazine or browse the Archive once you have registered.

Section headings in the article include

Saving the Memory

Accessing this Family History Resource

The Millers & Millwrights Database

Photographs, Correspondence and other Documents

Searching the catalogue

Milling families

The Windmills and Millers of Brighton
Hertfordshire Windmills and Windmillers
Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights
Watermills of the London Countryside
Suffolk Windmills
The Windmillers and Millers of Stoke, Ipswich
Robert Stone, Miller of Pangbourne

The Mills Archive
The Mills Archive Trust (Registered Charity 1091534) was established in March 2002. Our Mills Archive Online catalogue at www.millarchive.com was developed with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and provides free access to documents and images, including photographs, notes, correspondence, drawings etc. It allows searches of various databases, including material from the National Monuments Record and the University of Kent. We encourage researchers to make use of our Internet catalogue and to consider using our research services (a tariff is available on our website) rather than visiting the archive itself.

These are early days for the archive so we are opening on an experimental basis. Appointments to visit our library can only be made in writing (please supply a SAE) or by email and must offer several choices of dates and times at least three weeks in advance. Although we have no fulltime or professional staff, we will try to arrange a mutually convenient appointment. We cannot always guarantee access, as our cataloguing must take precedence. We also reserve the right to refuse access and if necessary to introduce charges for the use of the archive.