Story in the 'Covenrty Evening Telegraph' about Mr George Field's efforts to get financial backing for his plans to restore Balsall Heath Mill in Berkswell with the help of the millwright Derek Ogden.
Piece in the 'Bath & Wilts Evening Chronicle' about the appeal for funds by the Chairman of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust, Sir Geoffrey Tritton, to restore Wilton windmill near Great Bedwyn: the machinery being already having the attentions of Mr Derek Ogden who is one of the county's few remaining mill-wrights
Illustrated piece from the Kenilworth Weekly News marking the completion of restoration work of Berkswell Windmill which- truth to tell - is closer to Kenilworth than Berkswell. The new owners, Mr George Field and his wife Betty, employed the millwright Derek Ogden to assist with the work and now it will be open every Sunday until the autumn. After the tower mill was built in 1826 on the site of a post mill, it was run by the Hammond family for three generations, and a diesel engine was added in 1933, but the mill went out of use in 1948.
Article in the 'Birmingham Post' about Mr George Field, the new owner of Balsall Common Windmill which he is in the process of restoring with the help of millwright Mr Derek Ogden.
Piece in 'Country Life' about the work Derek Ogden and Gunolt Greiner are doing rescuing structures like windmills at the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings in Worcestershire.
Article in the Newport News 'Daily Express' about Derek Ogden's project to build a replica of an 18th century windmill on the site at Williamsburg where American archaeologists believe the first windmill stood in 1621.
Article from the 'Coventry Evening Telegraph' about Mr George Field and his retirement job of restoring Berkswell Heath Windmill, which he used to watch when he was a small boy nearby.
Piece in 'The Architectural Review' about the removal and re-erection of Danzey Green Post Mill at the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings at Stoke Prior near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.
Cutting from the 'Coventry Evening Telegraph' about the raising into position of the four tons of sails which means that George Field's ambition of getting Balsall Heath Mill back to working order [with the aid of millwright Dereck Ogden] has been realised.
Article in the 'Coventry Evening Telegraph' with photos taken inside the restored Chesterton Windmill with Derek Ogden posing with some of the machinery.