Post mill, Ellington

Technical drawings and images - Madingley Post Mill

NICH-REP-UK-019
File
October 1994

Part of David Nicholls (Millwright) Collection

(1) Two technical drawings (A1 size) for the restoration of Madingley Post Mill prepared for Mr and Mrs Mortlock by Nicholls/the Chiltern Partnership, one of which stamped as approved by South Cambridgeshire DC planning department on 5 June 1995.
(2) 3 sheets of Nicholl's manuscript notes, measurement and drawings (A3 size).
(3) A photocopy of two images taken in 1935, one of the site of Madingley Post Mill and the other of Ellington Post Mill. These were sent to Nicholls by [Wm Todd], English Heritage, on 5 May 1993, and come from the National Monuments Record. Also attached, a photocopy of a 1974 image of a Post Mill marked 'Rex Wailes 29.10.74'.
(4) 4 sheets of photocopied images of Ellington Post Mill ranging in date from 1916 to 1922.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Cambridgeshire

MEYE-NEG-04
Subseries
12 June 1926 - 26 July 1960

Part of Harry Meyer Collection

Negatives of windmills in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Some mills have been placed and labelled as Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, but are historically in Bedfordshire and Essex.
329: 1 glass plate negative and lantern slide.
408: 1 glass plate negative and lantern slide.
488: 1 negative and lantern slide.
493: 1 negative and lantern slide.
570: 1 glass plate negative and lantern slide.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Old Weston and Ellington

CHET-033
Item
1930s

Part of Charles and John Chettleburgh Collection

Chettleburgh, Charles

External view of Ellington, Hunts. Bk 31, No.18.

FREE-1126584
Item
Photocopy of sketch made 16 July 1932

Part of James Venn Collection

Sketch with historical note that, when it was moved, all the horses in the village were mobilised.

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Ellington, Hunts worm drive. Bk 31, No.19

FREE-1126583
Item
Photocopy of sketch made July 1932

Part of James Venn Collection

Detail of junction between buck and roundhouse, along with notes about the moving operation.

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

External view of Ellington, Hunts. Bk 31, No.20

FREE-1126582
Item
Photocopy of sketch made 16 July 1932

Part of James Venn Collection

Annotated sketch. Has note "Date probably not known" but this presumably refers to the mill's construction - TKG.

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Huntingdonshire

REXW-MIL-02-15
File
1938 - 1960

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reports on Gransden Mill, 1938, 1949, 1960 and 1938 specified contract for repairs to the mill per T. B. Hunt; Report on the windshaft at Madingley Mill.

Derelict midland type post mill

HESS-0224
Item
1 July 1935

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

Simmons cat#224. Mill identification information on reverse by Frank Gregory.

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

Picture of Ellington Mill

CUTT-05022
Item
24 May 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Amateur Photographer".

"A snapshot of the Old Mill at Ellington"

CUTT-05017
Item
29 March 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Country Life" sending a "snapshot" of Ellingtom Mill and Pylon - an example of old and new power.

"Olla Podrida"

CUTT-05013
Item
19 June 1936

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Peterborough Advertiser". The Ellington mill has been re-erected to replace the Old mill at Madingley which collapsed many years ago.

"Ancient and the Modern"

CUTT-05011
Item
16 May 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Peterborough Advertiser". A twin picture of windmill and pylons is the same taken by a cyclist.

"Power - Past and Present - Spoiling the Picture"

CUTT-05010
Item
4 March 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph" says the mill is overshadowed by one of the recently erected "standards" which carry the overhead wires for the new Midland Electricity scheme. A Telegraph representative described his dismay at the changing landscape resulting from the overhead wires in the county.

"A Windmill for the Wicksteed Park - Reader Discovers a Fine Old Specimen and 'Snaps' it"

CUTT-05009
Item
15 December 1931

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph" comments on the "considerable" interest in a paragraph titled "Let Kettering have a windmill". Wicksteed Park could be a site where Shelton windmill might be re-erected and preserved as a relic of the past.

"Power - Study in Contrasts"

CUTT-05008
Item
21 April 1930

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Daily News". Picture shows Mill and Electricity Pylon carrying high tension wires as part of the Midlands Electricity supply scheme.

"Power - Past and Present"

CUTT-05007
Item
9 January 1931

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Peterborough Advertiser" displays a picture of Ellington Old Mill adjacent to pylon supplying electricity to the National Grid. Thus the caption "Power - Past and Present".