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Cutting from the 'Wandsworth Borough News' recording that the target of £500 for the renovation of the windmill on Wimbledon Common has been reached after just a few months, which shows how popular it is locally.
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Photo and caption from the 'News of the World' about the threat to the Wimbledon Common Windmill unless funds can be found for restoration work.
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Article in 'The Wimbledon News' about the efforts that Rentokil Labs of Croydon have been putting in to defeat the woodworm infestation in the windmill on the Common.
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Piece in 'The Daily Telegraph' detailing the various afflictions that can affect an old windmill: and which the Wimbledon Common mill is victim to , along with the address to which to send contributions.
"Mill Appeal brings glimpse into the past"
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Article in the 'Wandsworth Borough News' about the widely spread parts of the country from which contributions to Commons Conservator Col. Lambert's Appeal Fund have come, and the stories that have accompanied them.
"Replacing windmill sweeps blown off in gale"
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Photo and caption in an East Sussex paper [that contains an advert for a sale in September 1968] showing E. Hole and Frank Agate, two employees of Messrs E. Hole and Son of Burgess Hill, preparing two replacements for the sweeps blown off Argos Hill mill in the gale in December 1967. Various other mills on which the firm had worked are given.
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Picture with caption from 'The Daily Telegraph' showing restoration work in progress on Brixton Hill tower mill.
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Letter from J D Ward of Minehead to 'The Field'about the 'Jack' and 'Jill' windmills at Outwood Common near Horley, Surrey, stating that the post mill Jill, built in 1665, is the oldest working mill in Britain.
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Piece of unknown date, from an unknown source, about the Jack and Jill windmills at Clayton on the South Downs.
"1841 windmill fired by rocket"
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Note in 'The South Western Star' about how the roof of the old pumping mill standing on Wandsworth Common was set alight by a firework.
"There were once seven windmills in the district"
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Report in 'The Norwood News' about a talk by Mr M. T. Mason to The Wandsworth Historical Society about local windmills.
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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.
"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.
"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.
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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.
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Section from 'The Streatham News' about the restoration efforts on Brixton Hill windmill.
"Brixton windmill to be preserved"
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Cutting from 'South London Press' saying that Miss Marshall had decided to preserve the old windmill on Brixton Hill which had been used as a store in recent years.
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Note in the 'Evening Standard' about the problems the heirs of Joshua Ashby, builder of the Brixton Hill windmill in 1816, now have finding someone to look after it in this post-War period.