Press cuttings relating to windmills and watermills.

Note in the 'Evening Standard' on how the Manchuko Government is planning to install wind-driven electricity generators in remote parts of the country to bring lights etc. to the people.

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.

Report in the 'Manchester Guardian' about the inquiry at Aberdaron, Caernarvonshire, into the proposed compulsory purchase of a site on Mynydd Annelwog for a wind power generator, at which the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales, through their interpretor, denounced the idea as barbarous desecration of a place held sacred in Celtic Christianity.

Snippet from the 'Evening News' telling how the S.P.A.B. has suggested to the Ministry of Fuel and Power that watermill sites could be adapted to generate electrical power; with the Ministry asking for the estimated number of mills thought suitable.

Half-page advertisement in 'The Daily Telegraph' for Sales and Design Engineers, and Electrical Draughtsmen, to join the Glasgow firm of James Howden & Co. to boost their presence in the wind turbine business.

Piece in the 'Hastings Observer' about the home-built windmill which Mr W. Pollin, of Hollington, Sussex, has started using in his kitchen garden to water his plants.

Article by Elliot Tyndall in the 'News Chronicle' about the scheme being studied by the Electrical Research Association for a 100 kW wind turbine on the exposed Costa Head in the Orkneys.

Article in the 'Daily Mail' about Karl Wood, the Art Master at Gainsborough Grammar School, who is attempting to is trying to complete paintings showing every example of windmills, castles, bridges and other landmarks in danger of destruction before it is too late.

Piece in the 'Sheffield Telegraph' about Mr Karl Wood, whose project for this coming summer is to cycle around Scotland and do paintings of its 17 windmills.

Piece in the 'Retford Times' how Mr Karl Wood of Gainsborough Grammar School is predicting that windmills may come back into fashion.

Snippet in the 'Yorkshire Post' about Karl Wood's final project to travel 700 miles to the Shetland Is to paint the remains of the windmill on the deserted island of South Havra.

Cutting from the Glasgow 'Sunday Post' about the time the artist Karl Wood spent in his retirement with the monks at Pluscarden Abbey in Morayshire, and what has happened to his legacy of windmill paintings.

Photo in the Cork 'Evening Echo' showing Jock Davidson at work on his wicker model windmill at Ossett, Yorkshire.

Photo in the Glasgow 'Evening Times' showing Mr & Mrs Sullivan in their garden with the model and full size Saxtead Green windmills.

Picture in the Glasgow 'Evening Times' of Mr Jack Bolhuis who came to England from Groningen in the Second World War and built an 8ft working model of a Dutch windmill to remind him of home.

Photo in the 'Bury Free Press' showing the full-scale and model windmills at Pakenham, along with Peter Bryant the miller's son.

Photo in the 'Eastern Daily Press' showing John Bryant's son Peter standing beside the model mill, with his father's tower mill in the background.

Photo in the 'Eastern Daily Press' showing the model house and smock mill scene made out of matchsticks by Mr. Fred Morley of Downham Market.