The Mill Archive Trust needs your help to preserve waterpower records from erosion and protect this knowledge for the future. Their previous appeal has helped them to preserve the work of past watermill and hydropower experts.The latest appeal is to help them with cataloguing and preserving several new collections which have been gifted to the Trust.

These new collections include the Reading Hydro archive, documenting the changing use of power along part of the River Thames in Reading; the archive of Tim Booth, a founder of the Midlands Mill Group; and the mills archive of Tony Yoward, a former trustee of the Mill Archive Trust and member of the Hampshire Mills Group, who documented many of the water mills in Dorset and Hampshire.

The new appeal will also help support the Trust’s work experience scheme for young people and thus spark an interest in this heritage.

To donate follow this link:  https://new.millsarchive.org/the-waterpower-appeal/?utm_source=Mills+Archive+enewsletter&utm_campaign=3351afca50-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_15_10_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3351afca50-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D#tab_0_content