Mills Collection (page 9)

Windmill and water mill, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Windmill (known as Archers Mill) at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. It was a post mill working two pairs of stones, purchased together with the nearby water mill by John Archer in the 19th century

Paston Windmill
Stow Mill on Stow Hill, Paston, near Mundesley, Norfolk. Often known as Paston Mill, it was built with dummy windows to make it look picturesque. Date: built 1827

Florence Mills in Black Birds
Florence Mills, born Florence Winfrey (1896 - 1927), American cabaret star, singer, dancer and comedienne. Pictured centre stage with Miss Tillie Meadows

Beautiful Sheffield! A sarcastic interpretation on the skyline of dark satanic mills which characterised Sheffield from the Industrial Revolution through to the 1950s

Roman Rotary Quern
A Rotary Quern used by the Romans for grinding corn. A number were found intact at the bakery in Pompeii

Scottish Hand Mill
Two women use a handmill to grind flour in a Scottish cabin

Windmills of Suffolk - Drinkstone Postmill near Stowmarket, Suffolk. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Cambridgeshire - Bourne Mill
Windmills of Cambridgeshire - Bourne (Bourn) Mill. circa early 20th century

British Columbia, East Canada - River Log Boom at the Mills Date: 1910s

Saxtead Green Post Windmill, Suffolk
Saxtead Green Post Windmill, a Grade II* listed building at Saxtead Green, Framlingham, Suffolk, dating back to the 18th century. Date: 1956

Windmills of Sussex - Mudmerry Mill, Selsey. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - The Old Mill, Rye. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Medmerry Mill, Selsey. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Salvington Mill, near Worthing. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Patcham Mill. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Earnley Mill, near Bognor Regis. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Surrey - Outwood Mills. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Clayton Mill. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Clayton Mills, near Brighton. circa early 20th century

How to be unsuccessful in modern society - 2
The hearty shows enthusiasm at a gathering of intelligentsia. Date: 1929

The Show-Girls Wedding by Wallis Mills
A showgirl bride and her husband run the gauntlet of high kicking legs for her unusual guard of honour after leaving the church. Date: 1929

Moquette Mills, Yonkers, Westchester County, NY State, USA
Moquette Mills, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York State, USA --Alexander Smith & Sons, Axminster Carpet manufacturers. Date: circa 1905

Lady Dukes, 1928
Lady Dukes, wife of Sir Paul Dukes, formerly Mrs Ogden Mills, pictured at the Gallo Theatre, New York, dancing under her maiden-name, Miss Margaret Rutherfurd. 1928

Sakia in Upper Egypt
Camel-drawn wooden sakia in Upper Egypt with local children supervising. The sakia (sakieh) is an animal-drawn water wheel serving irrigation and is still used in India

The Cloth of the World, Horrockses, Crewdson & Co Ltd, Preston, Lancashire, an outline of the history of the company, dating back to the 18th century -- trade design. 1920

The Cotton Industry, a Romance of Modern Work -- trade design. 1920

Portrait of the exhibition dancers Seille and Mills, London
Portrait of the exhibition dancers Robert Seille and Annette Mills, London, 1921. The pair have been dancing at the Palais de Danse, Hammersmith and the Centraal Theatre Amsterdam

The Cotton Fairies -- trade design. 1920

Women WW1 Munitions Southampton
A photograph of two women wearing the uniform of munitions workers. The handwritten note on the reverse reads, Elsie and I in munitions work during the war at the Rolling Mills, Southampton

Mardyck, France - Le Pont a Roseaux
Mardyck, northern France - Le Pont a Roseaux, with people, a horse and a windmill. Date: circa 1910s

A candid snapshot of well-know dancing celebrities in St Moritz, 1923, From left to right: second left Josephine Bradley, Robert Seille, Comtesse de Villeries

USA - Minneapolis - Mr washbourns Residence - house. Cadwallader Colden Washburn (18181882) was an American businessman, politician

Cassel, France - fields and windmills
Cassel, France - a horse and cart rides across the fields and pathways, looking out towards a distant group of windmills and farmhouses

Linen Bleaching Process, Washing Mills - an interior view in a spinning mill of the washing process for linen. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

North of Ireland Paper Mills, Ballyclare - a view of the factory to the left with tall chimneys and houses to the right. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Ballyclare)

Marriage or war work, WW1 cartoon by A. Wallis Mills
Cartoon by A Wallis Mills in Printers Pie telling the story of a young woman who refuses an officers marriage proposal as she means to do her bit for the war by getting involved in war work

Spain. Castile-La Mancha. Mota del Cuervo. Mills

Ox treadmill, uper Italy, ca. 1600. Were used to drive corn mills. Two oxen can work on the slanting plate. The animals are roped

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). Seventh President of the United States. Equestrian statue in Jackson Square sculpetd by Clark Mills (1810-1883) in 1856. French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana. USA

Ostia Antica. House of the Millstones. 2nd century AD. Italy

John William Mills (b. 1933). English sculptor. Blitz (1991). Memorial in honor of firefighters who lost their lives in service after suppressing fires caused by German bombing of the Luftwaffe

London. Monument to The Women of World War II by John W. Mil
United Kingdom. England. London. Monument to The Women of World War II by John W. Mills (b.1933), 2005. Whitehall

United States. Washington D. C. Washington Monument. Obelisk
United States. Washington D.C. Washington Monument. Obelisk built to commemorate the first U.S. President, George Washington (1732-1799). National Mall

CASTILE-LA MANCHA. CAMPO DE CRIPTANA. Aerial view with typic
Spain. Castile-La Mancha. Campo de Criptana. Typical windmills. Aerial view

Music cover, Boomps-A-Daisy, a new old-fashioned party dance, words and music by Annette Mills. 1939

Mill and wheel on a cutout birthday card with rustic border and verse. Date: circa 1890s

Mill and wheel on a cutout New Year card with rustic border and seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

DAVID DALE Scottish industrialist who introduced cotton mills into his native country; philanthropist. Date: 1739 - 1806

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