by
Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK
As Rex’s reputation spread around the world and his expertise and advice became more widely sought, he developed mutually beneficial collaborations with architects, engineers, photographers and artists.
Frequently they gave him drawings and images which are now safely lodged at the Mills Archive. Wherever possible, the provenance of each item is identified in our catalogue and where a sub-collection emerges we catalogue it separately under the name of the collaborator. As this series of snapshots develops, I will highlight the contribution some of these mill recorders made in their own right.
I have recently been contributing to a number of new web pages we have
developed on the theme of industrial mills (ie those not involved in cereal
processing) and these may now be seen by searching on
https://new.millsarchive.org/ for “mills make the world go round”. Of the more
than a dozen industries covered to date, I have selected three to illustrate
what a wide range of mills came within Rex’s orbit.
The salt mill was the last horizontal windmill at the salt pans, Salt Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands. In contrast the sawmill, with only one pair of sails remaining, was at Eckerö in the Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland. The photograph by Sven-Erik Krooks was taken in 1959.
Read more HERE.
As Rex’s reputation spread around the world and his expertise and advice became more widely sought, he developed mutually beneficial collaborations with architects, engineers, photographers and artists.
Frequently they gave him drawings and images which are now safely lodged at the Mills Archive. Wherever possible, the provenance of each item is identified in our catalogue and where a sub-collection emerges we catalogue it separately under the name of the collaborator. As this series of snapshots develops, I will highlight the contribution some of these mill recorders made in their own right.
The salt mill was the last horizontal windmill at the salt pans, Salt Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands. In contrast the sawmill, with only one pair of sails remaining, was at Eckerö in the Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland. The photograph by Sven-Erik Krooks was taken in 1959.
Read more HERE.
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