The latest issue of Mill News from the SPAB Mill Section arrived today. Of note, it includes
- Report from the Mill Section Spring Meeting (10th March 2007) on Smock Mills
- Obituary of Bob Morse
- Demise of Fressingfield windmill
- Oatmeal milling at Montgarrie mill, Aberdeenshire
- Gale damage to mills form January - (with minor damage at Billingford, and loss of fan blades at Thaxted to add to
those I've previously reported here)
- plus the regular letters, notes, news, mills for sale etc
The issue was also accompanied by the latest section publication - "The 'Engineers' of Mills in the Later Middle Ages" by
John Langdon (being the printed version of the 8th Rex Wailes Memorial Lecture presented in February 2006).
April 2007 edition of Mill News