Brixton Windmill, Brixton

Ashby's Mill, Brixton

MEYE-01505
Item
14 August 1937

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

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

Ashby's Mill, Brixton

MEYE-01502
Item
14 August 1937

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

Brixton tower mill, Greater London

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

Ashby's Mill, Brixton, preserved

MEYE-09463
Item
1958

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

Preserving the mill, Ashby's Mill, Brixton

MEYE-09468
Item
1954

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

Milling reminiscences

MEYE-09487
Item
1936

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

London newspapers including Evening News

Four exterior views, Ashby's Mill, Brixton

MEYE-09471
Item
c 1930

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

"Brixton Windmill Cap"

WALL-01-11
Item
11 - 24 February 1985

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

"Plan of curb and cap frame" carbon copy;
"Weatherbeam strengthening" drawing;
"Tower Mill, Blenheim Gardens, Lambeth" carbon copy;
"Section X-X & Y-Y" edited carbon copy

"Reopening of Brixton Windmill

CUTT-01803
Item
9 May 1969

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in 'The West London & Fulham Gazette' about the reopening of the tower mill after restoration by L. C. C.

"Working on sails"

CUTT-01802
Item
4 September 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'South London Press' about the restoration work nearing completion on the Brixton windmill.

"Brixton's Windmill"

CUTT-01804
Item
20 June 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Letter to 'South London Press' from a Mrs Bell of Bournemouth about searches by a Mr Saunderson for the windmill that once stood in Brixton.

"MUST A LONDON WINDMILL MAKE WAY FOR FLATS?"

CUTT-01806
Item
24 July 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Evening Standard' about proposals to knock down the windmill in Blenheim Gardens in Brixton and build a block of flats.

"The Brixton Windmill"

CUTT-01807
Item
12 August 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph and Morning Post' about the plans to replace the old windmill in Blenheim Gardens, Brixton with a block of flats.

"The windmill is NOT going"

CUTT-01808
Item
13 August 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Balham News' that the old windmill, dating from 1816, had been scheduled as an Ancient Monument in 1951 and would be restored.

"Lambeth cannot afford the windmill"

CUTT-01809
Item
28 September 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'South London Press' that Lambeth Council decided that the site of the old windmill in Blenheim Gardens would be too costly to acquire as an open space and that the L. C. C. would have to take the project on.