Alastair Wilson Collection

Photographs of mills in the UK. Also some of mills in France, Barbados, Belgium, Spain and Greece.

A surgeon who worked most of his life in Birmingham and the midlands. As a trainee in the 1940s he spent 12 months in Amsterdam and Zwolle and visited working mills there. In his retirement he assisted the miller of Danzey Green post mill at the Avoncroft Museum. He also went on numerous overseas trips with the Midlands Mills group, as well as searching for mills when abroad on other business

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A surgeon who worked most of his life in Birmingham and the midlands. As a trainee in the 1940s he spent 12 months in Amsterdam and Zwolle and visited working mills there. In his retirement he assisted the miller of Danzey Green post mill at the Avoncroft Museum. He also went on numerous overseas trips with the Midlands Mills group, as well as searching for mills when abroad on other business

Collection level description by Nathanael Hodge, May 2015; revised May 2019.

Donated to the archive 2006-2012, 2019.

Published