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Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
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Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Daily Mirror" about Upminster windmill coming up for sale for the second time in two years.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from an "The Star" which assumes that Upminster windmill will be saved once the owner withdraws his opposition.
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.
Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Evening News" mentioning that Upminster windmill has been sold.
A stock clamp is raised up to the new sails
Millwright Vincent Pargeter is preparing the bolts to secure the new clamp
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
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.
Abraham Family, smock mill, Upminster
Part of Don Paterson Collection
Alfred Abraham, last miller at Upminster Windmill, with wife Anne and daughter Grace.
Unknown photographer
Abraham's account of Upminster Mill
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Grays & Tilbury Gazette" about an interview with Mr Thomas Abraham, the chief miller of Upminster Mill.
Aerial photo by Richard Moorey
Only the windmill remains on the open site following the demolition of the other buildings by Essex County Council in 1960. A barn has also survived, though it is now in private ownership.
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.
Aerial view of the mill from SW
This image was taken from a remotely controlled quadcopter
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 1989/3 photographs of Keston post mill and Upminster Windmill
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Photographs of Keston post mill and Upminster Windmill in 1989.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
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
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
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.