Founded in 1977, Suffolk Mills Group is a Voluntary Association for those helping to care for Suffolk's Heritage of old windmills and watermills. 

Woodbridge Tide Mill                                                                     Thelnetham                                                                                   Tower                                                                                             Mill

NEWS:

Syleham post mill: on Thursday 28th June 2007 the remainder of the buck was removed from the mill. It had been a dangerous structure since the majority of the mill collapsed in the hurricane of October 1987. The work was done by Chris Hullcoop who is in the process of making the roundhouse watertight for years to come.

taken in the early 1990s

Bardwell tower mill - progress is being made in Bardwell, where new sails are being made for the tower mill. As with Syleham, Bardwell was another casualty of the October 1987 hurricanes where the mill became tailwinded and the 4 sails crashed to the ground. The work is being carried out by the Wheeler family who own the mill.

Photo taken in July 2006. Progress has been made since then.

Stansfield tower mill - a remaining tower mill turret dating 1840 - situated between Bury St Edmunds and Haverhill has been preserved with the addition of an aluminium roof and some repair works done to the rotten floor boards inside the mill. Here's a photo of the mill taken in 1910:

and here it is now...

Progress at Drinkstone post mill - most of the repairs to the post mill buck were completed by the end of the winter.

PUBLIC SMG EVENTS:

coming soon....

Click here to see a list of windmills and watermills that were open to the public during National Mills Weekend (Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th May 2008) this year...

To contact The Suffolk Mills Group by e-mail, contact either Mark Barnard by clicking here or the webmaster by clicking here