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Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
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Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Daily Mirror" about Upminster windmill coming up for sale for the second time in two years.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from an "The Star" which assumes that Upminster windmill will be saved once the owner withdraws his opposition.
1837 mortgage indenture, with transcript
This indenture concerns a mortgage taken out by James Nokes (the builder of Upminster Windmill) in 1837. The pdf file contains a facsimile of the original document, and a transcript of the old English text, plus notes. A reproduction of the document typeset in a readable font is also included.
Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'Evening Standard' describing the history of Terling Mill and its operation by father and son Herbert and Leslie Bonner.
"A 350-year-old windmill which is still grinding corn in Essex"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'Sphere' describing the operation of Terling mill. The article also includes a brief history of the mill under the ownership of Mr. H. Bonner.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Evening News" mentioning that Upminster windmill has been sold.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'The Field' of a submission by Mr. A. F. Eve describing the rapid deterioration of a smock mill in Orsett and an appeal for its restoration. The submission also includes a brief history of the mill.
A stock clamp is raised up to the new sails
Millwright Vincent Pargeter is preparing the bolts to secure the new clamp
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Note in 'The Guardian' that, as well as the stump of a windmill in Brixton, a windmill with a full set of sails is preserved in Upminster.
Abraham Family, smock mill, Upminster
Part of Don Paterson Collection
Alfred Abraham, last miller at Upminster Windmill, with wife Anne and daughter Grace.
Unknown photographer
Abraham's account of Upminster Mill
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Grays & Tilbury Gazette" about an interview with Mr Thomas Abraham, the chief miller of Upminster Mill.
Aerial photo by Richard Moorey
Only the windmill remains on the open site following the demolition of the other buildings by Essex County Council in 1960. A barn has also survived, though it is now in private ownership.
Aerial photo of Upminster windmill
The mill site pictured just prior to the closure of the mill. The mill estate comprised some 18 structures of different functions, which included the windmill, steam mill, coal house, hen house, granary, granary annex, chaff house, meal house, pig courts, forge, stable, two cart sheds and a lean-to, coal office, coal yard and shed, Mill House, and additional Cottage.
Aerial view of Smock Mill, Terling, Essex
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Aerial view of the mill from SW
This image was taken from a remotely controlled quadcopter