A working model to demonstrate the sails and wind shaft drive, and how the fantail mechanism turns the cap

Piece from the 'Upminster & Havering Recorder' about the row that developed when the former mayor of Havering. Mr Tom Dix, found out that the present council was thinking of moving the model of Upminster Windmill - which he 'd accepted during his term of duty - from Romford's Central Library to the Upminster Branch Library.

Snippet from the Blackburn 'Evening Telegraph' about an order received by a Blackpool firm to deliver plastic model egg timers and thermometers, shaped like windmills, to a customer in Amsterdam.

Cutting from the 'Southern Evening Echo' about the models that Mr Arthur Hodgson, of St. Mary Bourne, Hants, has made: firstly of cross-bows and latterly of a smock mill.

Piece in the 'Birmingham Post' about Mr J. A. Davidson, who is holding an exhibition of model windmills at the Betsford Gallery in North Audley Street, London.

Article by Waring S Scholl, in 'The Model Engineer', about the possibilities of windmills for modelling. Illustrated with pictures of an unnamed smock mill, Outwood Post Mill, a working model Smock Mill at Cripplegate Garage, near Horsham, Sussex, another of a model in the Norwich Museum, and the drainage mill at Ludham Bridge, Norfolk.

Cutting from Essex Chronicle' describing a model of Bocking windmill made by Mr. Fred Nottage out of 11,000 matchsticks.

Cutting from 'Western Morning News' describing the outrage and protestation of Col. W. P. Drury at the erection of an illuminated windmill on the Hoe Promenade in Plymouth.

Article in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' about the model windmill that Mr Wilfred Bull of Coggeshall is exhibiting at the upcoming Essex County Show; which was originally used to show would-be purchasers what the local millwrights could make for them 100 years ago.

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.

Cutting from the 'Eastern Daily Press' showing Mr Richard Suckling, of Methwold, with a couple of the 21 model windmills he has in his garden.

Picture in the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' showing the wicker model of a windmill that the foreman of an Ossett basket-works, Mr Jock Davidson, has made as an advertisement.

Model windmill in foreground.

Cutting from 'Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury' describing Leslie Stokes' windmill model made of lollipop sticks on display at the Rutland agricultural show. The article contains details on how the model was made, as well as Mr. Stokes' interest in windmills.

Cutting from 'Argus' about an exhibition about Sussex windmills at the Steyning Museum. Curator Tricia Semple credited Mr. Frank Gregory for being instrumental in supplying many of the models that were on display.

Photo in the Cork 'Evening Echo' showing Jock Davidson at work on his wicker model windmill at Ossett, Yorkshire.

Scale model, made by Frank Gregory, of part of a watermill, approximately 200mm high x 300mm x 300mm. The photo shows the 'interior' of the model with its wooden hurst frame enclosing the principal gearing and drive to two pairs of millstones. The sets of tentering gear to the millstones are of different designs: on the left, the brayer is controlled by a lever ('lighter staff') and on the right it is controlled by a hand wheel.

Scale model, made by Frank Gregory, of part of a watermill, approximately 200mm high x 300mm x 300mm. The photo shows the 'exterior' of the model with a clasp-arm waterwheel. In front are the dismantled parts of a second waterwheel.