Collection: Heckington Windmill

Collection-level records:

• Collection history (Collection development policy)

  Heckington Windmill Trusts’ (HWT) object and archival collection has formed over a number of years, 1981- current. The most significant amount of archival material has been donated by HWT Chairmen Charles Pinchbeck, who has been collecting material over the last 25 years. Items have also been gifted by HWT volunteers, the local community and others have been purchased by the Trust.

  Source: Collection development policy

  Date: 2022

  Licence: CC BY-NC

• Collection overview (Collection development policy)

  Heckington Windmill Trust’s collection is utilised on the mill site to support visitors’ enjoyment and learning. Redevelopment of the buildings on site was completed in 2017 as part of a Heritage Lottery Funded Regeneration Project. Exhibition spaces have been developed which engage both the local and wider community, and schools, providing people with a fuller understanding of the milling process and its role in: social history, science and industry, sustainable food production, and agricultural heritage. The Trust uses its collection to raise awareness of both the National and International significance of this windmill, the only surviving 8-sailed windmill in Western Europe.

  Currently, archival material and objects within the collection are in the process of being digitised, accessioned and catalogued. This is being undertaken in accordance with the Trust’s Documentation Policy. The size of the collection is yet to be ascertained. It is believe to be over 2000 items, covering a period from 1830 to current day; the most significant items being the windmill itself, industrial and rural objects associated with the mill, photographs and family history items.

  Source: Collection development policy

  Date: 2022

  Licence: CC BY-NC