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H E S Simmons Collection Tide mills
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Ruins on saltings, Old Salt Mill, Old Fishbourne

HESS catalogue #2132. [Watermills in Sussex Volume II, Stidder D and Smith C, pp.132) identifies this photo as the ruins. The postcard in FWG's album in not annotated, but Short's notebook identifies that a photo of the Old Salt Mill was taken on 14 May 1

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Tide Mill, Birdham

HESS catalogue #2262. "One of the few tide mills ever built in Sussex and the last in the county to work. It was erected in 1768 and became idle in 1935. The mill pond was then utilised as a yacht basin and a lock was built alongside the mill.

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher