SPAB Mills

 
 

   To Contact the Mills Section

Simon Hudson, Mills Secretary
Mills Section, SPAB, 37 Spital Square, London E1 6DY
Tel: 020 7456 0909 or 020 7377 1644
Fax: 020 7247 5296
e-mail millsinfo@spab.org.uk
 

What does the SPAB Mills Section do?

  • Protects hundreds of traditional Windmills and Watermills from proposals to demolish or damage them each year. 
  • Campaigns for the sympathetic repair of mills, and works to return buildings and machinery to working order.
  • Circulates its newsletter "Mill News" to members four times per year.
  • Helps to find new owners for mills at risk by issuing a list of  mills which are for sale. 
    Arranges a programme of lectures, meetings and visits to mills. 
  • Works to raise public awareness of the need to save and conserve the country's dwindling number of wind and watermills by generating press interest. 
  • Co-ordinates and publicises National Mills Weekend on the second weekend in May each year.
  • Supports the work of traditional millwrights across the UK. 
  • Liaises with independent groups of international and UK Molinologists. 
  • Encourages the survival of the traditional miller and his or her craft. 
  • Supports the care and development of our collections through the Mills Archive.
  •  Is an autonomous section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
  • Raises and distributes money through the Mill Repair Fund  


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Site last updated 15/06/2009