| Description | Photos of churches.
Steyning Sussex, July 1924/Sompting, Sussex, March 1921/Botolphs, Sussex, May 1921/Botolphs, Sussex, Feb 1921/Tastteon, Sussex, June 1905/Old Shoreham, Sussex, June 1921/Coombes, Sussex, Feb 1921/Coombes, Sussex, Jan 1921/Coombes, Sussex, March 1921/Pullboro', Sussex, June 1906/Coombes-Sussex, South side, Feb 1921/Clapham-Sussex, Jan 1924/Thakeham-Sussex, Oct 1924/Upper Waltham ch-Sussex, semi circular apse, June 1906/Hangleton-Sussex, March 1921/Fittleworth Church near Pulborough-Sussex, 4 June 1906/East Dean near Eastbourne-Sussex, Sep 1925/Lancing-Sussex, April 1921/Itchingfield church-Sussex, Sep 1927/Easthampstead Church-Berks, May 1908/Friston, Sussex, Sep 1925/Jevington-Sussex, Sep 1925/Lych gate-Rustington, Sussex, 17 June 1906/Rustington church- near Littlehampton, Sussex, 17 June 1906/East Preston church-near Littlehampton, Sussex, note stone spire, June 1906/Yepton Church-Sussex, showing the leaning tower, 18 June 1906/Clymping, Sussex, June 1906/Clever church-Berkshire, 1 Aug 1904/Brookland church-Kent, note fine leaden font, hat pegs and horsebox pews, June 1906/Brookland church-Kent, showing tower detached from body of church, 20 June 1906/Brookland church-Kent, showing leaning wooden tower, 1 July 1910/Lenham church-Kent, 29 June 1910/Thursley church-Surrey, with sundial, 18 Oct 1905/Midhurst church-Sussex, 3 Dec 1905/Norman rose window-c. 1130, Barfreston, Kent, finest specimen in a parish church in the country/Alfreston-Sussex, Sep 1922/Stopham-Sussex, May 1922/Ford-Sussex, May 1921/Ford-Sussex, May 1921/Bishopstone-Sussex, June 1921/Southease-Sussex, June 1921/Tortington-Sussex, May 1921/Piddinghoe-Sussex, June 1921/Church-Long Wittenham, Berkshire, 5 August 1905/Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, 26 Dec 1905/Eythorne church-near Dover, Kent, 21 June 1906/Church-Woolstone, Berkshire, 1 Aug 1910/Shalford church-Surrey, and village stocks, 4 March 1906/Shalford church-Surrey, and village stocks, 20 April 1904/Shere-Surrey, March 1906/Wiggonholt-Sussex, Feb 1926/St. Martins-Canterbury, 10 July 1912/Church-Sand, Surrey, 20 April 1904/East Meon-Hampshire, 25 Oct 1906/Compton church-Surrey, 13 Sep 1905/Compton church-Surrey, 13 Sep 1905/Norman chancel-Compton church-Surrey, one of the only two churches in England with chantry over sanctuary, 25 Oct 1905/Compton church-Surrey, 13 Sep 1905/Wisley-Surrey, Aug 1905/Baddlesworth, Kent, May 1913/Stoke-Surrey, March 1906/Old disused church-Albury, Surrey, 9 May 1906/Old disused church-Albury, Surrey, 9 May 1906/Tidmarsh church-Berks, note semi-octagonal apsidal chancel, 17 April 1911/Old disused church-Albury, Surrey, 9 May 1906, on the "Duke of Northumberland's Estatem Albury Park/Semi-octagonal apse, Tidmarsh, Berks, 17 April 1911/Arreton-Isle of Wight, May 1923/Sundial-Brading, Isle of Wight, May 1923/St. Lawrence old church-Isle of Wight, May 1923, locally claimed smallest church in England/Sundial-Godshill, Isle of Wight, May 1923/Old church-Bonechurch, Isle of Wight, July 1904/St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight, July 1904/Godshill-Isle of Wight, May 1923/Brading church-Isle of Wight, 19 July 1904/Caister-Norfolk, July 1911/Burgh castle church-Norfolk, July 1911/Fritton-Norfolk, thatched roof, July 1911/Fritton-Norfolk, thatched roof, July 1911/Easthampstead church-Berkshire, 16 March 1910/Godalming church-Surrey, 6 June 1906/Brundall-Norfolk, July 1911/Bradwell-Norfolk, July 1911/St. Martins-Wareham, Dorset, May 1924/Studland-Dorset, May 1924/Wotton church-Surrey, 4 April 1904/Share church-Surrey, south side, 7 March 1906Winchester cathedral-Hants, South west side, 13 May 1906/Lych gate-Shere, Surrey, 7 March 1906/Norman tower-East meon church, Hampshire, 22 Nov 1906/Gorleston-Norfolk, July 1911/Church in ruins-Greatham, Hampshire, 4 Nov 1906/Church and town hall-Wallingford, Berkshire, 5 August 1906/Church-East Meon, near Petersfield, Hampshire, 16 August 1906. |
| Admin history | Donald Muggeridge was born in Kent and inherited his father William’s enthusiasm for windmills. When Donald first became interested in mills, there were still more than 200 windmills at work in England. Having been involved in his father’s expeditions to photograph mills, Donald began his own photographic collection from the 1930s. In 1933, Donald met Syd Simmons, a fellow enthusiast, with whom he set off to track down and photograph mills across the country. They also shared information and duplicated photographs taken by one another on separate expeditions.
Donald and his later wife Vera, whom he met in 1936, spent their spare time cycling about the countryside together looking for windmills, watermills, columbariums and direction posts; in fact anything that was part of 'bygone' England. Vera was particularly interested in the furniture of old churches.
Donald succeeded in taking several interior shots, particularly in Essex, Kent and Suffolk, before the advent of the flash bulb. This could only be done by using magnesium ribbon or flash gun, or by relying on natural daylight, an exposure time of about 20 minutes and a small aperture for better definition.
During the war, Donald volunteered and was sent to the Cavalry Barracks in Canterbury but continued his trips in search of mills while he was off-duty. In May 1940, he was on the Dunkirk beaches, but returned without injury to marry Vera in Surrey. Donald returned to Kent in 1943 for officer training, but managed to visit mills within a ten mile radius on foot. While part of the armoured division making its way from Normandy to Berlin, he even managed to take about 400 photos of mills in Belgium, Holland and Germany and returned home in 1946.
Donald, Vera and their son Derek settled in Surrey after the war, but decided to emigrate to Canada in 1956. After losing his job due to a change of government, Donald and his family moved again to California, where both Vera and Donald worked until retirement. Derek became a successful aerospace engineer and is now Associate Vice President of Research and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Okanagan University College in Canada.
Despite living in North America, Donald returned to Britain in 1958, taking pictures of mills in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. In 1961 he continued his research in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Buckinghamshire. At Chinnor in Oxfordshire he took another four pictures of the mill he had been snapping since 1932, making a total of 28 photographs of this mill alone over a period of nearly 30 years.
Donald later made available the research into mills of Surrey and Essex which he had been hoping to publish prior to the Second World War. These notes and photographs became a significant contribution to Windmills of Surrey and Inner London by Kenneth G. Farries and Martin T. Mason (Charles Skilton, 1966) and to Farries's five volume unique treatise Essex Windmills, Millers & Millwrights (Charles Skilton, 1981-8). More recently Trevor L. Stainwright drew on Donald's collection of photographs for his Windmills of Northamptonshire & the Soke of Peterborough (WD Wharton, 1991).
Donald has gradually transferred his negatives to the Templeman Library. Prints have been made of the English and Welsh counties from Anglesey to Yorkshire. Donald is a regular correspondent with the Templeman Library, and takes an active part in the work and promotion of the Muggeridge collections. |