News - Mills

Our annual celebration of milling heritage has been cancelled.

For the first time, we are recruiting for millwright applicant on our crafts Fellowship for 2020. We asked 2009 SPAB Fellow Karl Grevatt to share his experience of moving from carpentry into millwrighting.

Rex Wailes was the leading advocate of historic mills within the SPAB in the 1920s. His important personal collection of notes, correspondence, photographs and drawings are being conserved by the Mills Archive Trust. 

Apply now to the Fellowship scheme if you're a craftsperson with an interest in mills, and in using and extending your skills to repair and maintain them.

The Real Bread Campaign is rallying bread lovers worldwide for a whole month dedicated to the oldest (and best!) way of leavening a loaf.

18th-century Saxtead Green Post Mill near Framlingham, Suffolk acquires a smart new set of sails. 

Traditional mills are facing serious risk from folic acid proposals - read the consultation and make your views known before 9th September deadline.

Peter Ellis, one of our long-standing millers and a member of the Traditional Corn Millers Guild, sadly passed away on 11th June.

The two-wheeled, 16th-century watermill formally re-opened its doors in July following a £1 million restoration project.

This ever-popular hands-on course is being held this August at Charlecote Mill, Hampton Lucy in Warwickshire.