West Marsh Mill, West Somerton

MEYE-NEG-12
Subseries
15 June 1937 - 2 August 1950

Negatives of windmills and drainage mills in Norfolk. Images from this subseries were used in "Drainage Windmills of the Norfolk Marshes: New edition" (Smith, Arthur C, 1990).

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

West Somerton

PARG-MFI-122
File
2009

Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection

Notes, report.

Pargeter, Vincent G (1943-2015), millwright

Norfolk

REXW-MIL-02-20
File
1940 - 1959

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Lists of wind and water mills; Report on Hunworth Mill per Dr. James Elliott; Report on the Norfolk Survey of mills, 1940; John Russell's recollections on Stalham Mill; Notes on Cooke's Mill, Stalham per G. Brislaw; notes on Billingford tower mill per Mr. S. Daines, miller; notes on West Marsh Mill, West Somerton and Post mill, Thornham Magna, 1959.

"West Somerton Mill: Report on the mill based on a visit 25/8/09"

PARG-DIG-01-056
Item
28 September 2009

Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection

Section drawing of a wind mill by Daniel England

ASHL-25-019
Item
Late 19th century

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a mill section drawing by Daniel England, Millwright, 1823-1897. Possibly West Somerton New Mill.

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

"Somerton West Marsh, Windshaft"

RHSC-01-01-168
Item
March 1990

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

Mill Dyke, West Somerton

WPAC-WIN-00825
Item
1939 or earlier

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1939 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.

Unknown publisher

"Sails were unsafe"

CUTT-01997
Item
19 August 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Eastern Daily Press' about the new use for Somerton Mill where the owner, Mr G J Wilkins, planned to hold bird-watching sessions once the unsafe sails had to be taken down.

"West Somerton Drainage Mill still needed"

CUTT-01990
Item
12 March 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Captioned photo from 'The Journal' showing how the drainage mill was still needed when the nearby meadow could get five feet deep in floodwater from the River Thurne.