"Sails of old windmill to turn again"
- CUTT-01810
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- 21 March 1961
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Report in the 'Evening News' that restoration of the site in Blenheim Gardens of the old Brixton windmill has started.
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"Sails of old windmill to turn again"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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Report in the 'Evening Standard' that the sails on the windmill in Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill, will soon be turning again.
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Note in the 'Glasgow Herald' on the story of how Brixton Hill, Lambeth, came to be reserved and restoration work is ongoing.
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Photo and caption from the 'Evening News' showing the Brixton Hill windmill with its sails on, and surrounded by a garden.
Note 'per E.L.B' - Couldson Common Mill
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note entitled, 'per E.L.B.' regarding Coulsdon Common Mill as follows: 'Belonged to a man named Brigden who had a post-mill at Sydenham & a smock (hand winded) at Ewell, Surrey. The mill had two [common] sails & two springs or patents, can't say which. As a lad Brigden's man told me that his boss christened her, which might date the mill to the 50's or early 60's. Went over when a lad about 1884, when I think she had only just finished work'.
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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.
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Report in 'Irish Times' about L.C.C.'s plan to spend £5,350 on restoring the Brixton windmill in Lambeth.
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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".
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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"
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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.
"Brixton windmill threatened with demolition"
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Photo with caption showing the Brixton windmill, threatened with demolition.
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Cutting from 'The Illustrated London News' showing the Brixton Hill windmill that, it says, could be preserved in an open space.
"New 'works' for the old windmill"
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Photos and caption from the 'South London Press' showing Mr J. Davies, from Alford in Lincolnshire, installing new machinery in the old Brixton Hill windmill.
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Section from 'The Streatham News' about the restoration efforts on Brixton Hill windmill.
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Cutting from "Sussex Daily News" informing Londoners that there is still a windmill in Lambeth.
Sussex Daily News
"Bid to save last London windmill"
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Cutting with photo from 'The Daily Telegraph' mentioning Miss Marion Marshall who had inherited the Brixton Hill windmill from the late Joshua Ashby and who wished to preserve it.
"A Facelift for the old Windmill"
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Photo and caption from the 'South London Press' showing scaffolding around Brixton Windmill in Blenheim Gardens as it has its first redecoration since the Council took it over.
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Scruffy cutting from 'The Times' about plans by the L. C. C. and the SPAB to preserve the tower mill in Blenheim Gardens, Brixton in an open space.