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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

Company No. 5743962

Charity Number 111 3753 

Scottish Charity No. SC039244

 

FRONT PAGE NEWS

At 12 noon on Saturday 10th May (during National Mills Weekend) Jack and Jill Windmill Society is being presented with a plaque by the SPAB Mills Section in recognition of the repair work and on going maintenance of Jill Mill by the volunteer team. in accordance with the Section's philosophy of repair.

The award will be presented by Jim Woodward-Nutt Chairman of the SPAB Mills Section 

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 old 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).