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"Former windmills as homes"

Piece in the Property section of 'The Daily Telegraph' about the varied types of building you can now enjoy if you want to make your home in a former windmill.

"Walton and Trimley windmills"

Item 10,227 in the 'East Anglian Miscellany' series in the 'East Anglian Daily Times', with memories by S.D.W. of Walton about windmills etc. formerly in Walton and Trimley. He refers to three in Walton and another two/three in Trimley.

"Windmill gets new sails"

Note in the 'Suffolk Free Press' about the new sails fitted to the smock mill, now being restored by Mr Robert Vestey, on Dowsetts Hill, Thurlow near Haverhill.

"Suffolk Windmills"

Note in the 'Suffolk and Essex Free Press' reporting a talk to the Ipswich Rotarians by Mr Norman Collinson in which he listed those of Suffolk's windmills which were still working, like those at Drinkstone, Pakenham and Woolpit.

"Suffolk Windmills"

Letter to the Editor of the'East Anglian Daily Times' from Stanley Freese approving the decision of East Suffolk CC to preserve Saxtead Green post mill, which he considered one of the most pleasantly situated mills in England. And if Wortham Mill cannot be saved too, might West Suffolk CC be pursuaded to preserve Drinkstone Mill ?

"Three old mills are to be saved"

Cutting from 'The Star' about the forthcoming inspection by a Lincolnshire millwright and experts from S.P.A.B. to select the three Suffolk windmills to preserve as examples of each type.

"Old mill must be allowed to die"

Snippet in the 'Evening Standard' about the Smock Mill at Holton near Halesworth, which the owners, Lt.-Col. & Mrs T. S. Irwin, are going to let fall down. However, the owner of the smock mill at Thurlow, Mr Ronald Vestey, has spent a lot of his own money putting it to rights.

"Suffolk Windmills"

Piece in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' on how the pioneering steps taken in East Suffolk to preserve some of their windmills is being followed by West Sussex and Bucks County Councils.

"Suffolk Windmills - No. 12653"

Item 12,653 in the East Anglian MIscellany series from the 'East Anglian Daily Times', quoting the 'Suffolk Chronicle': the vicar of Yaxley took the opportunity of visiting the observation post that the Ordnance Survey put on his church tower and listed what he could see from it viz. Occold Mill; Mellis Windmill sail;, one of the mills at Diss.

"Suffolk Windmills - No.12,227"

Item 12,227 in the East Anglian Miscellany series from the 'East Anglian Daily Times', quoting the 'Ipswich Journal' of (firstly) 28 August 1802: (secondly) 8 February 1800: (thirdly) 23 January 1802: (fourthly) 10 December 1803 about auctions of mills at Boxford, Bildeston (with removal by the new owner), Bramfield, and the same mill again; the first being a smock mill and the other two post mills.

"Suffolk Windmills No. 11, 892"

Item 11,892 in the Suffolk Windmills series in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' about the upcoming sale at Bungay of the three watermills on the navigation[canal] there along with a smock mill, all on a property there called Bardolfes, as reported in the 'Ipswich Journal' of 19 July, 1788.

"Suffolk Windmills No. 11,873"

Quotes from the 'Ipswich Journal ' of 14 November, 1795, in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' East Aglian Miscellany series, about the damage done by a storm on 13th November to various windmills in the Suffolk area.

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