Images and documents

"Reopening of Brixton Windmill

CUTT-01803
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9 May 1969

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in 'The West London & Fulham Gazette' about the reopening of the tower mill after restoration by L. C. C.

"Working on sails"

CUTT-01802
Item
4 September 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'South London Press' about the restoration work nearing completion on the Brixton windmill.

"Brixton's Windmill"

CUTT-01804
Item
20 June 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Letter to 'South London Press' from a Mrs Bell of Bournemouth about searches by a Mr Saunderson for the windmill that once stood in Brixton.

"MUST A LONDON WINDMILL MAKE WAY FOR FLATS?"

CUTT-01806
Item
24 July 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Evening Standard' about proposals to knock down the windmill in Blenheim Gardens in Brixton and build a block of flats.

"The Brixton Windmill"

CUTT-01807
Item
12 August 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph and Morning Post' about the plans to replace the old windmill in Blenheim Gardens, Brixton with a block of flats.

"The windmill is NOT going"

CUTT-01808
Item
13 August 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Balham News' that the old windmill, dating from 1816, had been scheduled as an Ancient Monument in 1951 and would be restored.

"Lambeth cannot afford the windmill"

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Item
28 September 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'South London Press' that Lambeth Council decided that the site of the old windmill in Blenheim Gardens would be too costly to acquire as an open space and that the L. C. C. would have to take the project on.

"Sails of old windmill to turn again"

CUTT-01810
Item
21 March 1961

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'Evening News' that restoration of the site in Blenheim Gardens of the old Brixton windmill has started.

"Windmill plan: cost too high"

CUTT-01811
Item
30 September 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'South London Advertiser' that Lambeth Council had decided the cost of including the windmill in an open space in Brixton was too high.

"Historic windmill wins its 30-year fight for life"

CUTT-01814
Item
26 February 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'Evening News' celebrating the accomplishment next spring when Brixton Hill's windmill's sails will be turning again.

"London mill sails to turn again"

CUTT-01812
Item
18 March 1961

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'Evening Standard' that the sails on the windmill in Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill, will soon be turning again.

"Old Mill by a Grant"

CUTT-01815
Item
7 May 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in the 'Glasgow Herald' on the story of how Brixton Hill, Lambeth, came to be reserved and restoration work is ongoing.

"Windmill regains its sails"

CUTT-01816
Item
31 July 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo and caption from the 'Evening News' showing the Brixton Hill windmill with its sails on, and surrounded by a garden.

"A Park at the Windmill"

CUTT-01819
Item
20 July 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in the 'South London Press' about plans by Lambeth Council to spend up to £6,000 making an open space around the old Brixton Hill windmill.

"Restoring Windmill"

CUTT-01805
Item
8 May 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in 'Irish Times' about L.C.C.'s plan to spend £5,350 on restoring the Brixton windmill in Lambeth.

"Sails being restored"

CUTT-01817
Item
17 July 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo and caption from 'The Daily Telegraph' showing sails being hoisted onto the cap of Brixton Hill tower mill.

"New life ahead for Brixton's windmill".

CUTT-01818
Item
23 July 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'South London Press' about proposals being put to Lambeth Council to restore the old windmill in Brixton.

"The Old Mill is There for Good"

CUTT-01820
Item
10 August 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in the 'South London Press' that newspaper reports that Brixton windmill was to be demolished for flats were quite wrong and, instead, it's planned to make a park around its site.