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"An Essex Windmill to be Saved - Noted landmarks threatened"

Cutting from "The Times" reporting that "Essex County Council has decided to take steps to save windmills in Essex from possible demolition". This was precipitated by a letter received from the Society of the Protection of Ancient Buildings expressing "concern at the rapid disappearance of windmills in Essex".

"An old Norfolk windmill"

Captioned photograph in 'The Daily Telegraph' showing The Old Windmill on Mousehold Heath, Sprowston, outside Norwich, which "Old" Crome of The Norwich School used to paint.

An Old Sussex Mill

This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1925 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date. Shows the mill in a derelict state.

Unknown publisher

"Ancient Mill Condemned"

Cutting from unknown publication. The mill is one of the most ancient in Kent. It is in danger of being demolished. It was recently used as a dwelling house.

"Ancient windmill"

Cutting from 'Daily Mirror' reporting that a replica of Brill Windmill will 'probably' appear at the Victoria and Albert museum.

"Ancient Windmill, to be Preserved as Historical Monument"

Cutting from the "Bristol Evening News" stated the the "old Bocking Windmill was handed over to the Bocking Parish Council as an historic monument". The mill was a relic of the earliest type of wooden structure where a demonstration of the primitive method of grinding corn was carried out by four old mill workers.

Antiquarian Research Notebook 37

Red ring-bound notebook. Contains correspondence, transcriptions, sketches and notes on mills in Sussex, France and West Africa, and various antiquary interests.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

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