Various new old-maps have been added to the site, including three versions of the map of Banchem from 1593, another version of the 1686 map and a very colourfull map from 1687. A first attempt was made to determine the location of the Bankras lake on a recent satellite image. The result can be [...]

New photographs of the Bankras mill have been found in an image archive of Amsterdam. They have been made by amateur photographer Jan Zeegers and show the mill at different seasons, including more details on the downstream side of the mill towards the river Amstel (now road Bankraspad). The photographs are displayed on this [...]

How cool is this: I found some new photographs of the Bankras mill had been added to the mill database. In the next hour of browsing the net, I found an image of a painting with just too many similarities. Check out the new pages in the menu.