Tower mill, Binbrook

View from Binbrook windmill

SMDN-2022.0002-010
Item
c 1930s

Part of Small Donations

Caption reads "From Binbrook Mill".

Earp, T G

View from Binbrook windmill

SMDN-2022.0002-009
Item
c 1930s

Part of Small Donations

Caption reads "From Binbrook Mill".

Earp, T G

Tower mill, Binbrook, working with two sweeps

FWGC-1102638
Item
No date

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Tower mill, Binbrook, in a working condition

HESS-0410
Item
July 1934

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

This seven storey tower has only two sweeps but appears to be working. There is a fine ogee cap.

HESS catalogue #410

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

"The last Wold windmill"

CUTT-01514
Item
05 November 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Lincolnshire Chronicle and Leader' lamenting the loss of windmills in Lincolnshire. The article contains a detailed profile of Binbrook windmill, including the damage done to it over the years, and the indecision by the owner, Mr. A. Fell, as to whether or not to restore it.

Saunderson's, Millwrights of Louth, Lincolnshire (unpublished) Vol 2

JSPB-1118713
File
c 1989

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Album of research notes and raw material compiled by Stephen Buckland.

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

Saunderson's, Millwrights of Louth, Lincolnshire (unpublished) Vol 1

JSPB-1118712
File
c 1989

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Album of research notes and raw material compiled by Stephen Buckland.

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

Research notebook for various mills, 1928

REXW-NOT-008
Item
5 April 1928 to 6 August 1928

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Mainly Lincs 1928 & Brill & Lancs" but beginning with a five page, narrative account of the first two days of Wailes' trip to France with H.O. Clarke and his assistant, Herbert Bean[stor]. The account ends with disembarkation at Calais but includes a proposed itinerary through Nord pas de Calais for Easter Sunday 1928.
The next section comprises eight pages of lists of windmills, many but not all, being in Lincolnshire.
The remainder of the book comprises: brief research notes on Lincolnshire millwrights and windmills (17 pages); fuller research notes and drawings of various Lancashire windmills (27 pages); brief research notes for visits made to Brill Windmill and Castle Mill, Beccles in July 1928; 11 pages of full notes and drawings concerning repairs to Brill Windmill taken in August 1928. Lastly four loose sheets at the rear of the notebook listing negatives of numerous windmills required by Wailes. Those windmills identifiable from the notes are listed at "Place access points" below.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

"Mill loses its sails"

CUTT-01515
Item
05 November 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Lincolnshire Standard' lamenting the loss of windmills in Lincolnshire. The article also contains a detailed profile of Binbrook windmill.

Market place, Binbrook

WPAC-WIN-00579
Item
Before 1934

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1934 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.

Unknown publisher

"Lincolnshire Mills and Millers in Wartime"

SASS-02-02
Item
2019

Part of Jon Sass Collection

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

"Lightning fires mill near Binbrook"

CUTT-01516
Item
05 July 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Lincolnshire Echo' describing the damage done to Binbrook windmill when it caught fire after being struck by lightning during a storm. The article also mentions that the mill was owned by Mr. A. Fell and that it was only occasionally used.