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SMG 2010 Public Meeting: Saturday 6th March 2010 from 7.30pm; at The Quaker Meeting House, 39 Fonnereau Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 3JH
The date of this meeting has now been confirmed. The main speaker will be Steve Temple, owner of Impington smock mill in Cambridgeshire. Click here for a map of where The Quaker Meeting House is.
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The Suffolk Mills Archive
During the last 3 months Bob Paterson has been sourcing old photographs of Suffolk windmills and watermills from members of the Suffolk Mills Group and also from old photograph albums owned by the group. He has created a near comprehensive list of windmill and watermill sites - both occupied and unoccupied and where he has been able to find an old photograph, he has linked the mill listing to a photograph of that mill. For the list of windmills click here and for the watermills click here. Bob does welcome additions (especially photographs) and comments on accuracy. Please feel free to send feedback and comments to windmillbob at hotmail.com. |
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Brome post mill in 1976 (photographed by Peter Dolman) and the site now (May 2009)
After months of suspecting that the roundhouse walls of Brome post mill in the north of the county have been cleared, I decided to visit the site on Saturday 30th May.
I drive past Brome on the A140 on a regular basis and I thought recently there had been something missing from the rather dilapidated site. The roundhouse had a conventional pitched roof until the early 1990s. Since then the whole site had become overgrown and fenced off from the neighbouring playfield and the adjacent house. The playfield is now part of the Airfield Industrial Estate and has now been turned into a mobile home site (Country Homes) and the fenced off area that the windmill once stood has been totally cleared of vegetation.
There was no sign that there had been a windmill there. The site is marked by a pile of rubble, loose tarmac and soil. A half-demolished building and a derelict building remain along with an iron storage unit.
The post mill was built in 1818. Four spring sails were fitted in 1840 and the windmill ran two pairs of millstones. It was demolished c1900 and I have never seen an old photo of the windmill when it was complete.
It is a shame to lose yet another windmill, albeit minor remains of a windmill.
Bob Paterson
Sunday 7th June 2009
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************** NEWS **************
A complete list of known windmill sites in Suffolk can be seen on Wikipedia by clicking here.
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Great Welnetham tower mill - March 2009 |
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Great Thurlow smock mill - April 2009 |
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Great Thurlow smock mill - April 2009 |
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Messrs Codd and Hullcoop |
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Your learned chairman Chris Hullcoop |
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Restorations
Stansfield Tower Mill
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remaining tower mill turret dating from1840, 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.
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Stansfield Tower Mill 1910 |
Stansfield Tower Mill now |
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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 four sails crashed to the ground. The work is being carried out by the Wheeler family who own the mill.
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Bardwell in 2006, further progress has been made since then. |
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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.
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Syleham Post Mill in the early 1990's |
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