Chesterton Windmill, Chesterton

Windmill Hill, near Leamington

ADCS-34
Item
c 1890 - c 1920

Part of Albert Dovey Chambers Lantern Slides

Chambers, Albert Dovey (1865-1949), photographer

"Chesterton Mill"

PUKM-010
Item
Early 20th Cent.

Part of Photographs of UK mills

"Survival of a past industrial era"

CUTT-03638
Item
8 October 1921

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Piece in 'The Birmingham Mail' about Warwickshire Windmills and past surveys like Henry Beighton's, made between 1725 and 1729 and printed in Dugdale's 1765 edition of his 'Warwickshire'; and citing the Chesterton mill as an interesting example.

Distinctive Tower Mill with Broken Sail and Family

DOLM-1122354
Item
c 1930

Part of Peter Dolman Collection

Photograph of Chesterton windmill in Warwickshire, showing the distinctive tower mill with one broken sail. Sitting in front of the mill on the motorbike are a Father, Mother and Son, possibly Henry Charles Cross and his family.

Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller

"Historic or Antiquarian Associations of Windmills"

CUTT-03995
Item
19 June 1926

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report on Parliamentary Proceedings, in the 'Herts and Essex Observer', in which Mr Foot Mitchell had asked the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was planned to repair any more of our old windmills, and was told that the mill at Chesterton, Warks, ascribed to Inigo Jones, had already been scheduled and that further action would be considered.

Chesterton Warwicks (1 of 3)

SPAB-BAS-461
File
1929-1969

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Francis photograph album

JKMC-15493
File
1929-1930

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

Photographs by a Mr Francis of English windmills from the period 1929-30.

"A striking 17th century mill at Chesterton"

CUTT-03566
Item
30 April 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Illustration in 'Wonderful Britain' showing the Chesterton windmill, built by Inigo Jones on the Peyte family's estate there.

Chesterton mill

CHET-019
Item
1930s

Part of Charles and John Chettleburgh Collection

Chettleburgh, Charles

Warwickshire

REXW-MIL-02-31
File
Mid 20th century

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on Tuttle Hill Mill, Caldecote; Note on Chesterton Mill per Derek Ogden.

Chesterton, Warrwickshire

KELL-67
Item
1930s

Part of Kelly Collection

Unknown photographer

"Vanishing Windmills (Pt.2)"

CUTT-04284b
Item
28 June 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Page 2 of R. Thurston Hopkins' article in 'Country Life' about Vanishing Windmills, illustrated by Ockley smock mill in Surrey, Chesterton Mill near Warwick, the smock mill at Sidley in Sussex, and Hilaire Belloc's Kings Mill at Shipley, Sussex.

"The oldest windmill"

CUTT-04691
Item
12 August 1932

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Rugby Observer' about whether Chesterton or Bourn has the oldest windmill in the country.

Chesterton Windmill, Chesterton, on arches

HESS-0931
Item
3 September 1932

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #931

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Windmills of England

CUTT-04738
Item
30 March 1933

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Evening Sentinel' about the work of the S.P.A.B.'s Windmill Committee, referring to seven mills acquired by the society.

"Midland windmills"

CUTT-03567
Item
24 November 1933

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Piece in the 'Birmingham Daily Mail' mentioning the variety of mills listed below and illustrating Chesterton mill. It also mentions mills at Naseby and Whiteladies, which are not yet included in our Mills Index.

Warwickshire

MEYE-NEG-17
Subseries
22 June 1936 - 22 July 1952

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

Negatives of windmills in Warwickshire.

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

Chesterton Windmill, Chesterton

ADAM-072
Item
1937 - 1940

Part of Ken Adams Collection

Unnumbered in photo album.

Chesterton Windmill, Chesterton

ADAM-082
Item
1937 - 1940

Part of Ken Adams Collection

"Another Windmill Landmark"

CUTT-03568
Item
7 March 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in the Birmingham 'Sunday Mercury' that, now the Tuttle Hill windmill has gone, the Chesterton windmill, thanks to the preservation work done by the S.P.A.B., is still a prominent local landmark.

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