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Note on reverse reads: "Seaton Ross is the only village in Yorks with 2 windmills still working. This mill has three pairs of stones and is owned by a farmer who uses it mainly for himself"

Unknown photographer

Skirlaugh, Holderness, Yorkshire

MMAC-PHT-481
Item
August 1928

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

Note on reverse reads: "The second postmill in the county. A very fine specimen and machinery is complete. Three pairs of stones: flour dresser etc. Ceased to work 1911. Mill is raised from the ground on 4 pillars (brick & stone)."

Unknown photographer

Ugthorpe, near Whitby, Yorkshire

MMAC-PHT-407
Item
June 1928

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

Note on reverse reads: "Ceased working about 20 years. A very picturesque old ruin. Three pairs of stones, flour dresser etc."

Unknown photographer

South Duffield Mill

MMAC-PHT-296
Item
1934

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

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

Skirlaugh, Holderness, Yorkshire

MMAC-PHT-257
Item
October 1928

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

Note on reverse reads: "A very fine example of a post mill and one of the last to be worked in Yorkshire"

Unknown photographer

Patrington, near Hull

MMAC-PHT-230
Item
June 1928

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

Note on reverse reads: "The only mill worked by wind in Holderness"

Unknown photographer

$Little Smeaton, near Pontefract, Yorks$

Little Smeaton, near Pontefract, Yorks

MMAC-PHT-228
Item
December 1928

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

Note on reverse reads: "This is one of the 2 postmills still left standing (both ruinous) in Yorkshire. Ceased to work in 1918. One pair of stonbes still in mill. The timber base is in good conditioon and it is one of the rare specimens of an open base type of postmill: the earliest type of all wind mills. Notice beam for turning to wind"

Unknown photographer

Holgate Mill, York

MMAC-PHT-227
Item
June 1928

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

Note on reverse reads: "Has not been worked by wind this year, but efforts are being made to preserve it. An electric motor is installed inside the mill and one pair of stones is worked. Four pairs in mill"

Unknown photographer

Preston's Mill, Seaton Ross, Yorkshire

MMAC-PHT-226
Item
June 1928

Part of The Millers' Mutual Association Collection

Note on reverse reads: "Three pairs of stones, oats roller in windmill. Two pairs and flour dresser in mill (on left) worked by Roly Steam Engine. A very good businesss. Cloth rollers on sails. Mill raided 1847 after boy was killed by revolving arm when running out of door after a mouse. "

Unknown photographer

Mortgage of a windmill and a watermill at Bridlington

MCFC-IND-054
Item
5 May 1797

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

One vellum sheet (approximately 69 cm x 88 cm), signed and sealed by all four parties. The document records the grant of a mortgage by Thomas Bradley, miller, to Thomas Robinson, gentleman, as trustee for Rebecca Bradley, spinster and Thomas Smith, yeoman, relating to a "wind corn mill" at Bridlington and a "water corn mill" at Hilderthorp, both properties being "near the high road leading from Bridlington Quay to Bessingby on or towards the south".

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