Six tail Tower mill, Thorney, derelict
- HESS-0130
- Item
- 19 August 1934
Part of H E S Simmons Collection
HESS catalogue #130. Mill identification information on reverse by Frank Gregory.
Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher
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Six tail Tower mill, Thorney, derelict
Part of H E S Simmons Collection
HESS catalogue #130. Mill identification information on reverse by Frank Gregory.
Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher
Part of Karl Wood Windmill Sketches
Pen and ink drawing with wash, M490 Thorney tower mill, 7 miles NE of Peterborough.
Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist
Rough sketch of Thorney, Cambs
Part of James Venn Collection
Drawn April 1932, when sails had gone but cap remained.
Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist
Thorney Mill, near Peterborough
Note on reverse reads: "Worked by tractor. Kidd (millwright of Wisbeach) made his name here by jacking up the mill and doing a very fine repair job. Formerly had 6 arms."
Unknown photographer
Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'The Evening Telegraph' describing the conversion of Thorney Mill into a residence.
This copy of postcard postmarked 1919.
Unknown photographer
Part of Gordon Anckorn Collection
Thorney near Wisbech or Peterborough.
Anckorn, Gordon
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
The tower had been extended