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Actions	The Denis Sanders Mill Collection Remove from selection Add to selection TitleThe Denis Sanders Mill Collection ReferenceSAND CreatorSanders, Denis Denis Sidney Sanders was an aircraft engineer but showed a wide and detailed interest in windmills, watermills and mill work in the 1930s - 1970s. Sanders was born on the 16th September 1917 near Worthing, Sussex, and married Doris L. Young on the 31st October 1941. From October 1942 he was an active member of the SPAS (Windmill Section) and became a member of the Newcomen Society in December 1948 and at meetings he took an active part in discussions on windmills. He was a frequent contributor to the discussions of Wailes's windmill papers to the society but published very little himself. He created 164 careful measured detailed field notebooks, which run from 22 August 1943 to 24 November 1973. Sanders died on the 4th March 1974 at the age of 56. Date 193s -1970s Scope and ContentA collection of notebooks and notes, drawings, press cuttings, letters and correspondence, photographs and postcards relating to windmills, watermills and mill work. Extent5 boxes LanguageEnglish Levelfonds Repository nameScience Museum, London Conditions governing accessOpen Access Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions

TitleThe Denis Sanders Mill Collection

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Date

193s -1970s

Scope and ContentA collection of notebooks and notes, drawings, press cuttings, letters and correspondence, photographs and postcards relating to windmills, watermills and mill work.

Extent5 boxes

LanguageEnglish

Levelfonds

Repository nameScience Museum, London

Conditions governing accessOpen Access

Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions