Smock mill, High Ongar

JSPB-1125422
Item
11 April - August 1949

Small, blue, ring-bound notebook labelled "Earliest Windmill Notes 1949 Essex, Sussex, Kent". Contains notes and sketches on windmills including Ash Mill; Little Laver; Moreton; Henham; Stansted; Thaxted; Wimbledon Common; Clavering; White Roding; High Ongar; Littlehampton; Rolvenden; Rye; Northiam; Playden; Sissinghurst; High Halden; Great Chart; Sandhurst; Kennington; Chillenden; Stanford; Pluckley; Wittersham; Smarden; Blackmore End; Beneden; Cross in Hand; Punnett's Town; Biddenden; Woodchurch.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Essex mills and dove cotes"

CUTT-04824
Item
7 March 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Southend Standard" about the history of mills, including a list of windmills which existed there in 1922.

"Essex windmills"

CUTT-04899
Item
24 August 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Leyton Express" with readers' letters about examples of windmills that can be found near London, including some (Bobbingworth, Hornchurch and Barking) which were recently destroyed.

"Damage by wind and lightning"

CUTT-04843
Item
11 February 1928

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Times" about a storm in London, in which Toot Hill Mill was struck by lightning and caught fire.

"Essex windmills"

CUTT-04786
Item
21 August 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Times" about present and former windmills in Essex.

"The old windmill at Toot Hill"

CUTT-04785
Item
19 August 1929

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Times" about windmills near London.

"Two windmills struck by lightning"

CUTT-04782
Item
18 February 1928

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Essex County Standard" about a storm in which windmills at Ongar and Bulmer were struck by lightning. An annotation notes that the Ongar mill was last struck by lightning in 1829.

Windmills struck by lightning

CUTT-04775
Item
18 February 1928

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Essex County Standard" about a storm in which windmills at Ongar and Bulmer were struck by lightning, and recommending that the Essex Archaeological Society protect the remaining mills from this.