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"Bromsgrove may get the windmill."

Piece from the 'Stratford-upon- Avon Herald' about the plans by the Avoncroft Building Museum at Bromsgrove to dismantle the structure of the post mill at Danzey Green and transfer it to their premises.

"Old wrecks"

Illustration from 'Reynold's Illustrated News' showing a VERY derelict post mill and a tower mill in poor condition at Shrewley, Warks.

"Home is wanted for a windmill"

Piece in the 'Yorkshire Post' about the need for a new home for the pieces of Little Smeaton windmill that, after dismantling, were stored on land at Heslington Hall which is now the site for York's new university.

"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.

"Protecting Windmills"

Note in the 'Southend Standard' that the Town and Country Planning Committee had recommended that the following buildings in Essex may not, without the prior permission of the Council, be demolished:- Stock Mill; Terling Mill; Aythorpe Roding Mill; and Great Bardfield Mill.

"Mr Andrews' windmill drawings"

Cutting from the 'Yorkshire Observer' recording the donation to the Cartwright Memorial Hall Museum, Bradford, by Mr F. C. Andrews of Strood, Kent, of 85 of his black-and-white drawings of windmills; these cover sites (mostly demolished) in Kent, Sussex, Herts, East Anglia, Lincs, Greece, Turkey, Spain, USA, Iceland and Germany.

"Keston Old Mill"

Cutting from "Bromley and Kentish Times". A forthcoming talk "Windmills at Work" to be given by Mr F C Bazett-Jones, followed by a series of slides on Keston Mill.

"Fylde Windmills"

Cutting from "Blackpool Times" reporting that the best course of action for the windmills of the Fylde should be to preserve them.

"A Matchstick Model"

Picture from the Glasgow 'Evening Times' showing the model of Saxtead Green Mill, Suffolk, constructed over 14 months by Mrs Doris Diggens, a local resident.

"Old Mill Goes - But Will Live On"

Snippet from 'The Evening Standard' on how the sails are being taken off the windmill on Bexhill Down, Sussex, because it has become dangerous; however a working model is being made by Mr "Son" Barton of Hooe which could find its way into a museum.

"Saxtead Mill in miniature"

Picture in the 'Evening Star' of the reconditioned model of Saxtead Green Mill - with another of the tower mill - in the garden of the Post Mill which is now in the care of the Ministry of Works.

"Craftsman's model of Woodhouse Mill"

Article in the 'Loughbrorough Monitor & Herald' about the model-maker Claude Preston, of Woodhouse Eaves in Leicestershire, who has constructed a model of the windmill that was recently burnt down in his village.

"Windmill Model"

Note in the 'Evening Standard' how Mr Fred Woodbridge of Luton has presented the town's museum with a model of the former Lower Dean windmill.

"Spotlight on Youth"

Article in the 'Skegness Standard' about the new museum which the Morris Secondary School and its Headmaster, Mr T Bagshaw, are creating at Burgh-le-Marsh next to their windmill; they have also made a model of the Post Mill at Saxtead Green in Suffolk.

"An Engineer and his Models"

Article in 'Engineering' magazine describing the model which the late Mr H O Clarke had made of Sprowston Heath Windmill, illustrated in CUTT-04140, and with some details of his life.

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