Michael Roots Slide Collection


I've recently been projecting my slides and making digital photos of them. Way back in 1983, I acquired a load of glass plates of various mills which I passed on to the EKMG. Slides were made of the prints, and I have copies. On Facebook, there is a group for those interested in windmills - Windmill Hoppers. I posted the images there and many of them have been identified as Sussex mills - Bexhill windmill, Hellingly watermill and Dean's Mill, Lindfield. There are still some unidentified, but it looks as though the vast majority of them are Sussex mills. Would you be interested in having copies for the SMG archives? The digital photos of the projected images are OK, but I'm prepared to make the slides available for copying as these would produce a better quality image. Unfortunately I don't have a scanner suitable to produce digital images direct from the slides but I'm sure we can arrange something. I don't know whether or not you are on facebook, but if you are then search out the Windmill Hoppers and Watermill Hoppers groups. If you aren't on facebook, please consider joining. Update : July 2018 : Many thanks to Nicky Walker for identifying some of the mills featured below 216 - Hellingly Watermill 218 - Clayton mills 219 - Downs Mill, Bexhill 220 - Lower Mill, Plumpton 221 - unidentified waterwheel 222 - Hellingly Watermill 223 - Hellingly 224 - Clayton mills 225 - unidentified watermill interior 226 - unidentified waterwheel 227 - unidentified watermill site with oast 228 - unidentified watermill interior 229 - Bosham 230 - Jill, Clayton 231 - unidentified watermill interior 232 - Hellingly 233 - Hellingly 234 - Hellingly 235 - Downs Mill, Bexhill 236 - Hellingly Watermill 237 - unidentified watermill site with oast 238 - unidentified waterwheel 239 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 240 - unidentified watermill interior 241 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 242 - Rottingdean 243 - unidentified watermill interior 244 - unidentified watermill interior 245 - unidentified watermill interior 246 - unidentified watermill interior with miller 247 - Hellingly Watermill 248 - unidentified watermill interior (cog pit) 249 - Hellingly Watermill 250 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 251 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 252 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 253 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 254 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 255 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 256 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 257 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 258 - Dean's Mill, Lindfield 217 (not included) is a Hampshire watermill, but the plate is badly damaged at top right. As far as I can tell, these images are all out of copyright by virtue of the author being unknown, the images being in excess of 70 years old. I've included the unidentified images as, in my opinion, they are highly likely to be Sussex mills. If any of these should be identified then I would appreciate it if you could let me know.