Conservation crafts taster course for construction students: East Anglia, 2014
Excellent preparation and communication. All aspects considered and organised in detail - essential for this type of course. All tutors really knowledgeable and able to communicate with the young students.
Traditional buildings fair and maintenance workshop day: Merseyside, 2015
The programme was very successful. We had a good turn-out, with the talks either well-attended or oversubscribed. The array of crafts and displays made the event feel special and must have made a good impression on attendees. The general organisation of the event and the thorough, professional approach of the SPAB helped things run very smoothly.
I have decided to leave a legacy to the SPAB Mills Section as a way of ensuring that the mill I am presently a custodian of, Fosters Mill at Swaffham Prior, and other mills can receive financial support to ensure their long-term future once I am gone. Our milling heritage will, thankfully, outlive us and the Section offers a way for us to extend our financial support to mills long after we are pushing up the daisies!
I joined the Mills Section in 1976 after visiting mills in John Vince’s booklet ‘Discovering Windmills’. Speaking with millers and mill owners I realised at once that all mills need constant repair. A few years later I joined the Mills Section because I felt and still feel passionately for what they stand for: to protect our surviving wind and watermills. To do this they need not only members to support them but also financial help. I shall be leaving money to the Mills Section for specific areas of their work.