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Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist Smock mills
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Cowlinge smock mill, Suffolk, in decay.

Sketch made on 15 April, 1933, when he noted:"Hadn't worked for some yrs. V. cramped inside. Store top floor. Stones middle and sacks bottom. No room to move. Nearly all wood. Falling into decay."

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Winfarthing, Norfolk

Sketch from a postcard that the miller had given to H.E.S. Simmons. A cryptic note may be to indicate the mill was "non-extant" by then.

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Great Thurlow, Suffolk

Sketch when the sails etc had all gone.

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Stanton Smock Mill, Suffolk

Sketch looking along the road when it was working: unlike the "dilapidated post mill".

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Palgrave, Suffolk

Well-finished sketch made on 26 June, 1929 when, as he says, "… I steered westwards for Palgrave's white smockmill which, with two sails only, is presumably in use, as it is otherwise in order …" {HandF (1931) p.67}

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Kingston Downs six-sailer, Lewes, Sussex. Bk 14, no 9.

"Exact copy of a postcard by Delittle, Fenwick and Co for Shurey's Publications." The mill was "the only one of its kind in England" [being a post mill] but fell in 1916. The postcard was lent to Stanley by Mr J.C.Stevenson of Toft Mill, Friskney, Lincs.

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

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