Tower mill, Shirley, Croydon

"Kent Mills Open to Public - 1997"

EIGH-18-039
Item
1997

This Leaflet gives details of a range of mills in Kent that can be visited, with brief details and opening times. There are 17 mills described in the leaflet.

Kent Mills Group

"Most prob Shirley tower mill Sy"

JSPB-NEG-09-071
Item
1954 or 1955

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

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

Notes on the history of Shirley Windmill.

SMDN-2014.0014
Item
2014

Part of Small Donations

Troughton, Brenda

Windmill. Shirley

WPAC-WIN-00888
Item
1923 or earlier

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1923 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.

Unknown publisher

Tower mill, Shirley, Surrey

DUNN-01-19-11
Item
No date

Part of Michael Dunn Collection

Mill on rough patch within John Ruskin School grounds, Shirley, Surrey

Dunn, Michael (1916-1993)

Shirley Mill Croydon Gtr London

SPAB-BAS-329
File
No date

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

"Windmill turns to summer"

CUTT-02941
Item
17 May 2002

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Croydon Advertiser' recording the start of the new season's guided tours of Shirley windmill and other visitor attractions.

"Windmill earmarked to become museum"

CUTT-02940
Item
11 November 1977

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Croydon Advertiser' recording plans to turn the old windmill into an agricultural museum and field studies centre.

"Preserving the mill at Shirley"

CUTT-02939
Item
9 March 1962

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Croydon Advertiser'about the latest treatment session against woodworm in Shirley Windmill by the Leatherhead firm of Rentokil Ltd.

"Windmill was treated for woodworm"

CUTT-02938
Item
20 April 1967

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Piece in the 'Municipal Journal' publicising that Rentokil Labs. Ltd had treated the old windmill incorporated in the grounds of the new John Ruskin School in Croydon, against woodworm.

"Old mill needs repair"

CUTT-02937
Item
15 September 1961

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Croydon Times' telling how a firm of Lincolnshire millwrights have advised that around £485 will be needed to put Shirley Mill to rights

"Facelift for a windmill"

CUTT-02936
Item
1 September 1958

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo in the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' showing the scaffolding around Shirley Tower Mill in Surrey, which is being incorporated in the new Grammar School.

"Shirley windmill"

CUTT-02935
Item
3 August 1951

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo in the 'Croydon Advertiser' showing the upper part of Shirley Tower Mill.

"Building a school by a windmill"

CUTT-02934
Item
20 March 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Picture in 'The Sphere' showing the site of the new John Ruskin Grammar School, being built at Shirley in Surrey alongside the old tower mill.

"Now the old windmill may loose its charm"

CUTT-02933
Item
25 May 1953

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

"Windmill renovated"

CUTT-02932
Item
2 October 1958

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Snippet from the 'Evening Standard' about the windmill in John Ruskin Grammar School, Croydon.

"School want mill to stay"

CUTT-02931
Item
19 December 1951

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Evening Standard' about the ideas for incorporating Shirley Tower Mill into the fabric of the new grammar school.

"Old Mill sets a problem in school grounds"

CUTT-02930
Item
26 November 1951

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Evening News' about hopes by the builders that they can fit Shirley Tower Mill into their plans for the new Grammar School.

"Shirley Windmill may be preserved, Ministry told"

CUTT-02929
Item
15 March 1952

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Croydon Times' about the public enquiry into the question of where the land should be found to increase the supply of grammar school places in Croydon.

"40. - SHIRLEY MILL"

CUTT-02928
Item
25 November 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Purley and Coulsden Advertiser' about the history of the old windmill that is having a new school built alongside it

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