Cutting from unknown publication. Photoshot of Lytham Windmill.

Cutting from "West Lancashire Evening Gazette" reporting that there was an opportunity to purchase the old mill at Thornton as a residence. The auctioneer described Thornton mill as 'substantial and offering exceptional facilities for convertion into a fine building'. It was built in 1794.

Cutting from "Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph" comments on the "considerable" interest in a paragraph titled "Let Kettering have a windmill". Wicksteed Park could be a site where Shelton windmill might be re-erected and preserved as a relic of the past.

Cutting from "Blackpool Gazette and Herald". Much interest has been taken in the proposal to restore Marton Windmill as a memorial to the late Mr Clarke. A restoration committee has been set up to oversee the fund raising. The mill owner, Mt Cornelius Bagot, has given the mill to this committee.

Cutting from "Manchester Guardian". At the March meeting of the Lancashire Authors' Association held in Preston a lecture was given on "Allen Clarke and his works". Before the lecture a wreath was laid on the grave of Allen Clarke in Marton Cemetery.

Cutting from "West Lancashire Evening Gazette". A committee has been formed to secure Marton Windmill as a fitting memorial to Mr Allen Clarke, Lancashire author and journalist who 'did so much to make the Fylde "Windmill Land" known throughout the country'.

Cutting from "Evening Argus". Few Kent windmills have such picturesque locations as Cranbrook Windmill.

Cutting from 'Architect & Building News' about the plan to restore the mill at Madingley.

Cutting from "Evening Standard". Photograph "gives a picturesque touch to the Kent village of Delce."

Cutting from "News Chronicle". Allen Clarke (author of 'Windmill Land') writes in of this article about the demise of the windmills in Lancashire. He mentions the Weeton Appeal to preserve the windmill at Weeton via the Lancashire branch of the Ancient Monuments Society and includes the delights of Weeton village and its history.

Pen and ink drawing, M355 Aberford tower mill, 6 miles SW of Tadcaster, 11/09/1932

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
View from the top of Lotherton Lane, c 1927-28. Copy of a photograph owned by Ken Hartley of Selby.

Alfred Abraham, last miller at Upminster Windmill, with wife Anne and daughter Grace.

Cutting from "Grays & Tilbury Gazette" about an interview with Mr Thomas Abraham, the chief miller of Upminster Mill.

5 vellum sheets (30 cm x 20 cm) providing an abstract of Mr Darnelly's title to lands in Banbury traced back to: a lease by Queen Elizabeth I to Anthony Cope of two Banbury Mills dated 7 July 1587; a conveyance of a third mill "being a Windmill" from Thomas Hawtaine (son of Henry and Mary Hawtaine) to Richard Vivers dated 18 July 1632; a deed dated 6 October [1616] under which Henry Hawtaine made a "jointure of the premises" to his wife, Mary, being "the windmill the Ivy Close b[y] the Meadow....all part of Easington Farms" which he had purchased "from the king"; a conveyance of "the Fine yard Lands at Nethrop" from Richard Cope, John Churchill and Richard Hastings to Richard Vivers dated 27 April 1616; a conveyance of "the Barns" from Thomas and Edward Kirton to Robert Vivers dated 18 June 1652. The abstract is completed with Mr Darnelly obtaining judgement in Trinity Term 1662 for £900.

The mill is in a very poor state with only two sails and the top of the mill missing

The mill looks to be in in a good condition