"MUST A LONDON WINDMILL MAKE WAY FOR FLATS?"
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- 24 July 1954
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Cutting from 'Evening Standard' about proposals to knock down the windmill in Blenheim Gardens in Brixton and build a block of flats.
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"MUST A LONDON WINDMILL MAKE WAY FOR FLATS?"
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Cutting from 'Evening Standard' about proposals to knock down the windmill in Blenheim Gardens in Brixton and build a block of flats.
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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.
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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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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"
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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.
"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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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.
"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
"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.
"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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Section from 'The Streatham News' about the restoration efforts on Brixton Hill windmill.
"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.