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"A kitchen garden windmill"

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.

"Frank Gregory's model of Polegate Postmill"

Captioned photo in the Brighton 'Evening Argus' showing Frank Gregory, President of the Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society, with the model he has made of Jill Postmill, which will be housed in the Milling Museum Room at Polegate.

"A Working Model"

Cutting from a cycling[?] paper of unnkown date, showing a working model of the post mill at Cross-in-Hand, Sussex, that the miller's son(14) has built.

"A Lollipop Windmill"

Piece from the 'Mid-Sussex Times' about the model of Shipley windmill that Mr L. H. Stokes of Oakham has built from lollipop sticks and which he exhibited at the Rutland County Show.

"Peter Powell's model"

Photo in the 'West Sussex Gazette' of Peter Powell, of Bailey's Farm, Coolham, and an expert of mill restoration, with a model of the post mill which used to stand at Kirdford before being bought to his farm.

"The Old Mill is Back"

Feature in the 'Southern Weekly News' about the model of the Post Mill at Bailey's Farm, Coolham, which the farmer and mill restorer Peter Powell has made.

"Three Sussex Windmills"

Note in the 'Brighton Standard' that the three mills at Nutley, Blackboys and Argos Hill are to be protected by Uckfield District Council, provided the scheme gets the approval of the Ministry of Health:

"W.S.C.C. Planning Application delays"

Report in the 'West Sussex Gazette' on the discussions about why planning applications were taking so long to process, and how well the appeal for contributions to the Windmill Preservation Fund was going.

"Sussex Wind and Water Mills"

Report in the 'Mid Sussex Times' of a talk, given to the Burgess Hill Townswomen's Guild, by Mr Raymond Chandler of Aldbourne, which included the windmill at Shipley which had been renovated by Mr Peter Powell of Coolham.

"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.

"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.

"Jack and Jill are serving Poland"

Piece in the 'Brighton Herald' about how Mrs Anson, the owner of these well-known windmills has decided to use them for storing "comforts" being collected for the Polish refugees.

"Memories of Avisford Mill"

Piece in the 'West Sussex Gazette', inspired by a picture sent in by Mr A. S Palmer of Yapton, showing the post mill at Avisford which was demolished just before the end of the 19th century.

"Leading landmark restored"

Cutting from an unknown magazine of unknown date, marking the completion of the repairs that the current owners, West Sussex CC, were making to the popular Halnaker Windmill.

"Shipley Village Life"

Piece in the 'West Sussex Gazette & South of England Advertiser' [contiued in CUTT-04431] about the significant buildings in Shipley, like the old and new Vicarages and the windmill which Hilaire Belloc made his home for many years..

"A Windmill"

Piece in the Childrens' section of the 'Daily Mail(?)' by "Big Chief I-Spy" about the Cross-in-Hand Windmill in Sussex; with a challenge to start a Mills Index [!].

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