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"Mr Andrew's Reminiscences"

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.

"Then and now"

Piece in the Hull 'Daily Mail' about how the old windmill site is now occuped by Hornsea Pottery Ltd.

"Crowbar brought landmark down"

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.

"Windmill's new roof"

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.

"Windmill renewal held up"

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.

"Still in good order"

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.

"Redcar's ancient landmark"

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.

"Windmill at Ossett"

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.

"Mill mystery is solved"

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.

"Mill Memories"

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"

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.

"Aerogenerator"

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"

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.

"Some Old Watermills"

Article in 'The Austin Magazine', published for their car owners, suggesting picturesque water mills their owners might like to visit.

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