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"Arundel - The Old Cement MIll"

Reprint of the original notice in the 'West Sussex Gazette' about how the lease of the plot between the bridge over the Arun and the railway station, on which the cement mill stood, had just expired.

"Ringmer Windmill"

Snippet in 'The Times' about how this mill, which had two of its sweeps renewed just six years previously, had fallen down and only the centre post was stlll standing.

"Bocking windmill"

Cutting from an "Essex Chronicle" about an appeal to the Essex Archaeological Society to take over Bocking Windmill, mentioning similar schemes in Ditchling, Norfolk and Nottinghamshire. It includes a mil at Aldeburgh which was moved in order to pump the town's water supply.

"The Disappearing Windmills of Kent"

Cutting from "Kent Evening Echo". The article likens the English landscape with windmills to Rembrant's canvas painting "The Mill", but the windmills have rapidly disappeared with few remaining.

Smuggler's hiding places in mills

Cutting from an unknown source of a drawing and brief description by James E. Martin illustrating a smuggler's possible hiding place at the watermill on Bailey's Farm in Coolham.

"Today's Gossip"

Snippet in 'The Daily Mirror' about the Jack and Jill windmills above Clayton, with the comment that Jill was dragged there from Brighton in 1824.

"Vanishing Windmills (Pt.2)"

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.

"More Vanishing Windmills"

Page 3 of R. Thurston Hopkins' article on "Vanishing Windmills" in 'Country Life', illustrated by Shire Mark Smock Mill, Ashurst Mill - the oldest mill in Sussex - and the brass in St. Margaret's Church at King's Lynn showing a medieval post-mill.

"Family reunion amid ruins"

Cutting from 'The People' describing the reunion planned by John Oliver at Highdown Hill Mill, where his ancestor by the same name was the miller until his death in 1793. The article provides a detailed profile of the miller and his eccentricities, as well as a brief background of the surrounding Olivers.

"All that is left… …"

Illustration in 'Cycling Magazine' showing the king-post and supports which were all that was left when the buck of the Glyndebourne post mill got blown off.

Windmills of England

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

Press Cuttings

Cutting from an unknown paper, of unknown but pretty obvious date [cf. CUTT-03086], about the demolition of Ocklynge Windmill the previous evening

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