Images and documents

"…A new life as a home"

CUTT-03079
Item
20 April 1988

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article from the 'Argus' about the way Roger Hoad has converted the former Lewes Prison mill building into a home.

"… … from the mill"

CUTT-04425
Item
nd

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Illustrated piece from an unknown Sussex paper of unknown date, mentioning that a local windmill - presumably West Blatchington Mill - had been restored and re-opened by Hove Council.

"… Mill stuck outside a pub"

CUTT-03104
Item
18 February 1972

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Worthing Herald' going into the movements during its life of the South Navarino Mill at Salvington: otherwise known as Worthing Mill.

"£7,000 to restore old windmill"

CUTT-04322
Item
2 June 1975

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in 'The Daily Telegraph' about the decision by East Sussex CC to back the restoration of the post mill at Cross-in-Hand with a sum of £7,000 and a long-term lease.

"£7,000 to restore old windmill"

CUTT-02138
Item
2 June 1975

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note from 'The Daily Telegraph' about plans to restore Cross-in-Hand post mill if a sum of £7,000 can be raised.

"£7,000 needed to save windmill"

CUTT-03202
Item
3 March 1975

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in 'The Daily Telegraph' about the proposals to get Cross-in-Hand post mill working again grinding cattle feed.

"£47,500 for mod.con. windmill"

CUTT-03292
Item
11 April 1975

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in the 'Evening Argus' about the proposed sale of the former Patcham windmill, now converted into a house.

"£4,000 needed to save mill"

CUTT-03346
Item
16 October 1970

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Appeal to the readers of the 'Sussex Express' from Mr Henry Blyth, one of the trustees of the almost-200-year-old Rottingdean Mill, to help save it from falling down.

"£4,000 is needed to repair windmill"

CUTT-03344
Item
7 August 1970

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Eastbourne Gazette' about the Rottingdean Preservation Society's urgent need for £4K to fix a twist in the structure and a broken sweep, before next winter's bad weather arrives.

"£2,000 to repair windmill"

CUTT-04567
Item
nkn

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in an unknown paper about the grant by Brighton Council of £1,000 to Rottingdean Preservation Society to match the similar sum already raised for repairs to the local windmill.

"£100 will go to saving the windmill"

CUTT-03309
Item
23 January 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the Brighton 'Evening Argus' about the first contribution to the fund for purchasing and restoring Polegate windmill, against the Preservation Order obtained by the Eastbourne & District Preservation Society.

"£100 for mill appeal fund"

CUTT-03310
Item
25 January 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Eastbourne Herald Chronicle' about the contribution to the fund to buy and restore Polegate windmill, agreed by Hailsham RDC at their latest meeting.

"Youngsters take on £30,000 mill project"

CUTT-00150
Item
No date

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from an unknown source describing the efforts of students in the industrial archaeology society at St. Bede's to restore Hellingly watermill near Hailsham. The project was given a Department of the Environment approval for a grant, and the article mentions the owner of the mill Mr. Jonathan Minns and head of science Mr. Dennis Gibson as others involved in the project.

Yard, car and van at watermill, Wannock

HESS-2264
Item
16 July 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2264.

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

"Yacht's mast used in mill"

CUTT-00246
Item
04 May 1989

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'West Sussex Gazette' of an article by Mary Taylor describing the developments in Littlehampton. It includes details of Arun Mill being built on the east bank of the harbour in 183, as well as its use as a flour mill and later a brewery, and some other historical details.

Yachting Pool and Old Mill, Littlehampton

WPAC-WIN-01230
Item
1932 or earlier

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1932 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.

Unknown publisher

Wynn Tremenheere Collection

TREM
Collection
Late 20th century

35mm slides of Sussex, Norfolk and Surrey windmills. Print photos.

Tremenheere, Wynn (1923-2015), chairman of Cranbrook Windmill Association

"W.S.C.C. Planning Application delays"

CUTT-04209
Item
2 December 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'West Sussex Gazette' on the discussions about why planning applications were taking so long to process, and how well the appeal for contributions to the Windmill Preservation Fund was going.