- CUTT-03787
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- 30 March 1955
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Article in the Hull 'Daily Mail' on the stories and photos that Mr Andrew, of Ferriby Sluice, Barton-on-Humber, a fifth-generation miller, has in his collection.
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Article in the Hull 'Daily Mail' on the stories and photos that Mr Andrew, of Ferriby Sluice, Barton-on-Humber, a fifth-generation miller, has in his collection.
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Piece in the Hull 'Daily Mail' about how the old windmill site is now occuped by Hornsea Pottery Ltd.
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Letter to the Editor of 'Country Life' from Mr G. Harrison of Doncaster about the controversy over the conservation of Bentley water mill.
"Skidby Mill in Company Formation"
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Piece in 'The Hull Daily Mail' about the registration of J. G. and B. Thompson (Skidby and Welton) as a milling and corn merchant business.
"Crowbar brought landmark down"
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Article in the 'Hull and Yorkshire Times' about the demolition of the Old Mill at Seaton Ross, in the East Riding, because it has become unsafe; so the millwrights firm of Robert Thompson and Co. were called in to take it down and the villagers came to see the fun.
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Note in the 'Yorkshire Herald & Gazette' that York City Council will be recommended to accept Messrs R. Thompson & Sons' - millwrights of Alford, Lincs - tender for re-roofing Holgate Windmill.
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Report in the 'Yorkshire Evening Press' that, having begun work on the restoration of Holgate Mill, York, the contractors Messrs R. Thompson & Son have found that they cannot turn the dome, so a supplementary sum of £306 will have to be asked for.
"Yorkshire's last working windmill"
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Letter to 'Country Life' from Arthur Gaunt of Brighouse, Yorks, accompanying a photo of the tower mill at Skidby near Beverley, West Yorkshire.
"Windmill may go in Folk Park"
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Piece in the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' about the proposal to re-erect the former Little Smeaton windmill in the Folk Park planned by York's Museum Committee.
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Letter to an unknown Yorkshire paper, of unknown date, from Jack Ward of Brough, sending his photo of the wind pump at Messrs Hy. Williamson Ltd's brick-works at Broomfleet.
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Cutting from 'Stocton & Thornby Herald' about the planned demolition of a disused Redcar windmill in order to build a new church building. It includes a history of the mill, its decay and its use as an observation post in WWI.
"Want a dream home? Learn to abseil first!"
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Piece from the 'Daily Mail' about how the Dysons took a fancy to Skelton Windmill while on an Sunday afternoon's drive and have converted it into a luxurious home.
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Picture in the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' showing the wicker model of a windmill that the foreman of an Ossett basket-works, Mr Jock Davidson, has made as an advertisement.
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Letter to the Editor of the Middlesborough 'Evening Gazette' from Mr R. S. Ramsdale of Dormanstown, identifying the old windmill as belonging to Redcar where it was known as Coatham Mill.
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Photo in the Cork 'Evening Echo' showing Jock Davidson at work on his wicker model windmill at Ossett, Yorkshire.
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Cutting from the 'Yorkshire Post' about the model of the post mill at Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire, made by Mr Tom Marshall for Hull Museum of Commerce & Transport.
"He has the Wind Working for him"
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Piece from the Glasgow 'Evening Times' about the chimney sweep Mr Arnold Stead of Holme near Huddersfield who has constructed a windmill to drive an electricity generator that makes him independent of the current power cuts.
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Captioned photo in 'The Observer' showing the three-bladed wind turbine which Sir Henry Tancred-Lawson has built on his estate at Aldborough, feeding electricity into the National Grid.
"Europe's largest aerogenerator"
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Piece from 'The Financial Times' about the new, three-bladed, 30kW, low-cost wind turbine which Sir Henry Lawson-Tancred Sons & Co. of Boroughbridge, North Yorks, have constructed at Aldborough.
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Article in 'The Austin Magazine', published for their car owners, suggesting picturesque water mills their owners might like to visit.