The SPAB Mills Section’s latest online lunchtime lecture on 19th April 2023 will look back at what became the standard work on windmills: Rex Wailes’s 1957 book ‘The English Windmill’. Its content blended technical, historical, and anecdotal information to create a work that is still highly readable and relevant today. In the 65 years since…
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‘A Pretty Engine’: next SPAB Mills Section lunchtime talk
On 1 December 2021 the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Mills Section will be holding their next online lunchtime lecture. ‘A Pretty Engine’ is the title of a talk to be given by Steve Temple about the earliest reference to the use of a plunger pump. John Evelyn was the first of…
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