Smock mills

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1837 mortgage indenture, with transcript

This indenture concerns a mortgage taken out by James Nokes (the builder of Upminster Windmill) in 1837. The pdf file contains a facsimile of the original document, and a transcript of the old English text, plus notes. A reproduction of the document typeset in a readable font is also included.

"A Windmill Preserved"

Note in 'The Guardian' that, as well as the stump of a windmill in Brixton, a windmill with a full set of sails is preserved in Upminster.

Aerial photo of Upminster windmill

The mill site pictured just prior to the closure of the mill. The mill estate comprised some 18 structures of different functions, which included the windmill, steam mill, coal house, hen house, granary, granary annex, chaff house, meal house, pig courts, forge, stable, two cart sheds and a lean-to, coal office, coal yard and shed, Mill House, and additional Cottage.

Alarm bell system

Each pair of millstones had an alarm bell to signal when its hopper required refilling. A leather strap fixed to a cord and buried in the grain held the bell away from a dog on the upright shaft. When the level of grain dropped the strap was released and the bell moved towards the shaft to be nudged by the dog and sound the alarm. Photograph is thought to be by Rex Wailes.

Album of negatives (2)

Album of negative strips in various sizes, of windmills and watermills, views of London, and Stephen's trip to Abidjan and Ghana in January and April 1966. The following mills are listed: Ovenden's Mill, Willingdon; Wimbledon Windmill, Wimbledon Common; Grove's Mill, Coleshill; Smock mill, Meopham; Shiremark Mill, Capel; Stembridge Mill, High Ham; Lower Mill, Woodchurch; Lacey Green Windmill, Lacey Green; Duck End Mill, Finchingfield; Littleworth Mill, Wheatley; Tower mill, New Bradwell; Church Street Windmill, Bocking; Downs Mill, Bexhill; Alderford Mill, Sible Hedingham.

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

Album XXIV

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

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

Alfred Abraham on the Stone Floor of the mill

This photograph is thought to have been taken by Rex Wailes who carried out extensive surveys of the mills in England in the 1920s-40s on behalf of the Ministry of Works and its agent organisations responsible for cataloguing and preserving ancient buildings. He became the foremost authority on mills.

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