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"A Windmill Preserved"

Note in 'The Guardian' that, as well as the stump of a windmill in Brixton, a windmill with a full set of sails is preserved in Upminster.

"Brixton's mill"

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.

"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.

"Vanishing Windmills (Pt.2)"

Page 2 of R. Thurston Hopkins' article in 'Country Life' about Vanishing Windmills, illustrated by Ockley smock mill in Surrey, Chesterton Mill near Warwick, the smock mill at Sidley in Sussex, and Hilaire Belloc's Kings Mill at Shipley, Sussex.

"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.

"Still Turning"

Article from 'Sport & Country' about how the windmills on Outwood Common near Godstone are still contributing to the War Effort.

"Jack fell down …"

Follow up to our CUTT-2957,from the 'West Suusex Gazette', recording that the smock mill on Outwood Common had been blown down in a recent gale.

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