Smeaton Mill, Little Smeaton

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Little Smeaton, near Pontefract, Yorks

Note on reverse reads: "This is one of the 2 postmills still left standing (both ruinous) in Yorkshire. Ceased to work in 1918. One pair of stonbes still in mill. The timber base is in good conditioon and it is one of the rare specimens of an open base type of postmill: the earliest type of all wind mills. Notice beam for turning to wind"

Unknown photographer

Little Smeaton Survey Material

  • CPOW
  • Collection
  • 1961

Survey notes, photos and drawings of Little Smeaton mill, Yorkshire, 1961

Powell, Christopher

Kirk Smeaton

This copy of the postcard indicates that a 1/2d stamp is required. The postage rate for postcards rose to 1d in 1918, so the image presumably does not date from later than that year.

Unknown publisher

"Losing Battle for windmills"

Piece from the 'Manchester Guardian' about the sad results of Mr. Edward Mitford Abraham's revisiting the windmills he began cataloguing fifty-one years ago and now finds all-too-many of them no more.

"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.

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