"Essex Windmills - interesting report to County Council - The Upminster Mill"

• CUTT-04982
• Item
• 10 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Grays and Tilbury Gazette". It was revealed in a special report at a Planning committee meeting that only two windmills out of 112 in Essex were in working order. Discussions considered the viability of restoring and preser...

"Essex Windmills"

• CUTT-04975
• Item
• 12 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "East Anglian Daily Times". A report by the County Surveyor regarding Essex windmills recommended that the Smock Mill at Upminster should not be demolished. This was approved by the County Council.

"Windmill Saved"

• CUTT-04989
• Item
• 17 December 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Star". The historic windmill at Upminster which has been a landmark for centuries has been sold but it will not be pulled down.

"Windmill News"

• CUTT-04987
• Item
• 26 November 1931

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Essex Chronicle" reporting that Essex County Council had sought to make an order for the non-demolition of Upminster windmill. Mr Simons, the owner, objected to this action which was considered by the Ministry of Health inq...

"Windmills"

• CUTT-04985
• Item
• 18 August 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Romford Times". The County Council is preparing plans to save the remaining windmills from disappearing from the Essex landscape. From the County surveyor's report it seems the County Council is taking this matter seri...

"An Echo of Yesterday"

• CUTT-04983
• Item
• 15 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Christian Herald". London's last remaining windmill is for sale. It was built in 1799 and been in the "hands of the same family for several generations".

"Fund Opened for the Upkeep of Windmill - Public Asked to subscribe"

• CUTT-04977
• Item
• 25 November 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Recorders" reporting that "the people of Hornchurch and Upminster districts are being asked to subscribe to the fund for the upkeep of Upminster Windmill".

"Headmaster as a Windmill Expert"

• CUTT-04978
• Item
• 9 October 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Evening Standard". A book about Essex Windmills written by Donald Smith - a Dagenham headmaster - was used by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings for its purposes. This research was used to inform the Essex ...

"An Essex Windmill to be Saved - Noted landmarks threatened"

• CUTT-04968
• Item
• 14 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Times" reporting that "Essex County Council has decided to take steps to save windmills in Essex from possible demolition". This was precipitated by a letter received from the Society of the Protection of Anci...

"The Mill is there to stay"

• CUTT-04964
• Item
• 29 November 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the "Evening News" proclaims that "this mill, at Upminster, Essex, is going to be preserved".

"The Old Mill at Upminster which is for sale"

• CUTT-04961
• Item
• 5 June 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the "Grays and Tilbury Gazette".

Album XXIV

• JSPB-NEG-24
• Subseries
• 12 March 1961 - 15 April 1961

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Sussex, Essex and Cambridgeshire.

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