Bretherton Lancs

• SPAB-BAS-096
• File
• No date

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Post mill, Warton

• WOOD-M1293
• Item
• 24 April 1949

Part of Karl Wood Windmill Sketches

Pen and ink drawing with wash, M1293 Post mill, Warton, 3 miles SW of Kirkham.

Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist

Ainsdale Mill information

• SMDN-2019.0049-02
• Item
• 2019

Part of Small Donations

Gregory, Beverley

Ainsdale Mill

• SMDN-2019.0049-01
• Item
• 1970s

Part of Small Donations

Gregory, Beverley

Paint mill, Liverpool

• ROYG-IMG-01-223
• Item
• No date

Part of Roy Gregory Collection

Caption reads: A mill for grinding paints as noted by John Rennie on his visit to Liverpool in 1784. He commented that the constant turning of the stone wears it more on the outside than the middle, causing it to become rounded.

"Weeton Mill"

• CUTT-05283
• Item
• 2 January 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Blackpool Gazette and Herald". A Drawing of Weeton Windmill.

"Windmill Death - Thornton Windmill"

• CUTT-05282
• Item
• 29 May 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Daily Herald". A picture of Thornton Windmill, near Fleetword, where two women were killed by falling from the platform behind the sails.

"In Search of Monuments"

• CUTT-05281
• Item
• 6 June 1931

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Blackpool Gazette". The writer thanks the editor for including a previous letter regarding an investigation into the Fylde windmills. He asks if any reader would be willing to help report to the Ancient Monuments Committee ...

"The Windmill Up-To-Date - Singleton Mill"

• CUTT-05280
• Item
• 10 August 1932

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Liverpool Echo". A picture of Singleton mill, one of the relics of the Fylde. A mill stood on this site in 1547. It is now run by gas engine.

"Windmill Tragedy - Funeral of Miss Baldwin Today"

• CUTT-05279
• Item
• 31 May 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "West Lancashire Evening Gazette" reporting that the funeral of Miss Alice Baldwin would take place at Thornton today following a fall from the top of Thornton Windmill in high winds.

"Marton Windmill - Suggested Memorial to Allen Clarke"

• CUTT-05278
• Item
• 13 March 1936

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Lytham St Annes Express" reporting that a proposal to aquire the Old Mill at Marton as an ancient Monument was outlined at a meeting of the Blackpool Planning committee. It was indicated that it could be a permanent memoria...

"Vanishing Windmills"

• CUTT-05277
• Item
• 14 May 1931

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Halifax Daily Courier and Guardian" reporting that windmills have never been obvious in Halifax and District. Water power and water wheel were more prevalent than the windmill in this area but where windmills were once a co...

"The Fylde

• CUTT-05276
• Item
• 7 May 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Northern Daily Telegraph". The article says the Fylde has always been known as "Windmill Land". Within a radius of some 12 miles of Blackpool there were over 12 working windmills and over time windmills became unn...

"Fall From Top Of Windmill - Tragic Death Of Two Women At Thornton"

• CUTT-05275
• Item
• 28 May 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Lancashire Daily Post" reporting that two women fell from the Thornton Windmill and died.

"Saving the Fylde Windmills"

• CUTT-05274
• Item
• 16 May 1931

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Blackpool Gazette and Herald" stating that there is an attempt to preserve the windmills of the Fylde. The preservation of Weeton windmill has been launched by the Ancient Monuments Society. Before being taken over by the N...

"Vanishing Windmills - to the Editor"

• CUTT-05273
• Item
• 14 July 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Lancashire Evening Post". The letter writer highlights the loss of the windmills from the Fylde and his interest as a representative of the "Amounderness Hundred" upon the Ancient Monuments committee for Lancashire.

"Lytham's greensward"

• CUTT-05272
• Item
• 4 August 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Lytham St Anne's Express". A picture of children "romping" on the green in the foreground of the Lytham St Anne Windmill on a Bank Holiday weekend.

"Save our Windmills"

• CUTT-05271
• Item
• 17 August 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Blackpool Gazette and Herald". The proposal to schedule windmills in Sussex as ancient buildings and worthy of restoration can equally apply to the Fylde windmills as described in this article. It mentions Lytham St Anne an...

"Weeton Mill"

• CUTT-05270
• Item
• 13 June 1936

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Blackpool Gazette and Herald". One of the most picturesque windmills in the Fylde.

"Unique: Windmill for Sale"

• CUTT-05269
• Item
• 20 May 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Manchester Evening Chronicle". Windmill to be auctioned at Fleetwood. Although it has been used as a cafe it still has the old machinery and sails preserved for antiquity.