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"The Disappearing Windmills of Kent"

Cutting from "Kent Evening Echo". The article likens the English landscape with windmills to Rembrant's canvas painting "The Mill", but the windmills have rapidly disappeared with few remaining.

Windmills of England

Cutting from 'Evening Sentinel' about the work of the S.P.A.B.'s Windmill Committee, referring to seven mills acquired by the society.

"War stops the Windmills"

Note in the Gloucester 'Citizen' on Rex Wailes' estimate that, if the present rate at which windmills are being shut down, none will be left at work in fifteen years.

"Midland windmills"

Piece in the 'Birmingham Daily Mail' mentioning the variety of mills listed below and illustrating Chesterton mill. It also mentions mills at Naseby and Whiteladies, which are not yet included in our Mills Index.

"Working Mill"

Letter to the Editor of an unknown paper from Miss Barbara J. Smith, of Sutton, Surrey, about Outwood Mill near Reigate, Surrey, where stone-ground wholemeal flour is produced every Sunday afternoon by the Thomas brothers.

"Windmills - their aspects for modelling"

Article by Waring S Scholl, in 'The Model Engineer', about the possibilities of windmills for modelling. Illustrated with pictures of an unnamed smock mill, Outwood Post Mill, a working model Smock Mill at Cripplegate Garage, near Horsham, Sussex, another of a model in the Norwich Museum, and the drainage mill at Ludham Bridge, Norfolk.

"War and Windmills"

Note in the 'West Lancashire Evening Gazette' drawing attention to the work of S.P.A.B. in helping preserve some of our earliest windmills, but within 10 years none may be left. Examples given are a mill dating from 1636 at Bourne in Cambridgeshire, one of the Outwood mills in Surrey (probably the post mill), and the mill on the site of the battlefield of Edgehill.

"Windmills"

Quotation in 'Public Opinion' from a writer in the 'Woman's Magazine' about how long windmills have been a part of our heritage, with examples cited at Chesterton in Warks, Outwood in Surrey and Brill [wrongly attributed to Essex instead of Bucks]: also an illustration in the Luttrell Psalter and on a brass in St. Margaret's Church at King's Lynn.

"Replacing windmill sweeps blown off in gale"

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.

"Renovating murals"

Photo in the 'Surrey Mirror and County Post' showing the signwriter Mr R. Young at work inside the former windmill on Reigate Heath which has been changed into an Anglican church.

"Windmill Decision Regretted"

Letter to the 'Surrey Mirror' from Mr R. D. Nicol of Reigate, saying he was appalled that the Borough Council had refused to make repairs to the windmill on the Heath yet subsidises an annual pageant which makes a thumping loss.

"Final Touches"

Photo in the 'Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph' of a little boy watching a painter at work on the Reigate Heath Mill.

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