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"Future of Acle Road Mill"

Feature in the 'Yarmouth Mercury' about proposals for the future of Ash Tree Drainage Mill on the Acle Road, at present owned by the Church Commissioners.

"Plans to Restore Mill"

Illustrated article in the 'South Norfolk News & Diss Mercury' about the work Adrian Colman is doing restoring Garboldisham Mill with the professional help of the millwright Philip Lennard.

"Miller wanted"

Cutting from the 'Liverpool Daily Post' about S.P.A.B.' appeals now for a miller to go with the refurbished Billingford Mill !

"Mill and Miller"

Cutting from the 'Birmingham Post' about the S.P.A.B.'s searches for a miller for Billingford Mill, along with the money to get it repaired.

"Vanished mill was part of the family"

Late 19th century photo showing the smock mill at Erpingham, Norfolk, where John Johnson the miller lived with his family. Around 1900 the mill was sold to G H Witham, whose son Edward worked it until his death in 1959.

"Mill gets a face-lift"

Cutting from an unknown East Anglian paper, of unknown date recording the repair work on the sails and stocks of Savory's Mill at Burnham Overy, including a picture of the carpenter, Mr J. E. Thompson, building a new sail.

"Soon to turn again"

Illustrated article from the 'South Norfolk News' about the new steel stocks being fitted for the sails at Billingford Tower Mill, so that it might possibly be able to grind flour again.

"Away from it all"

Cutting from the 'Evening News' about how Mr G. S. Goreham, a member of the SPAB, is putting up for sale for £35 a mill which he had bought in September 1954 [c.f. CUTT-02313].

"Windmill for £35"

Cutting from 'The Daily Telegraph' about Mr G. S. Goreham's offer for sale of the drainage mill which he bought three years ago, at an asking price of £35.

"Over the Tea Table"

Cutting from the 'Eastern Evening News' about Mr G. S. Goreham, a member of SPAB, who would like volunteers to help him with the restoration of Reedham drainage mill. The mill is identified from Arthur Smith's 1978 'Drainage Windmills of the Norfolk Marshes' as the most probable subject [no.49] - TKG.

"Brixton's mill"

Report in the 'Evening Standard' that restoration work on Brixton Hill's old windmill will soon begin, now that replacement parts have been located by a Lincolnshire millwright, Mr R. Thompson, at Burgh in Norfolk.

"Windmill model"

Note in the 'Norwich Mercury' about the monthly meeting of the Norwich and District Society of Model Engineers, at which Mr H O Clark gave a talk about his model of Sprowston Windmill (burnt down in 1934) and the history of milling.

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