Built in 1856 for Thomas Grove, this tower mill last worked c 1903. The tower is four-storey red brick, with a boat cap, and it had 4 patent sails. For a period it served as a Girl Guides Headquarters. By the 1970s it had become a house conversion, and had a windshaft but no sails.
Photos: (1) D W Smith (a) disused with stocks and 3 sails (2) NMR (a-f) ditto (g) disused with no sails (3) NMR (WC) (a-b) disused as in 1930s (c) brakewheel, May 1972 (4) BCRALSS (a) disused with cap, stocks and 3 sails 1937 (b) house-converted with cap and fan spokes but no sails (c-e) with new cap, fan and sail frames, 1989 (f) w/o apart from some missing shutters, 1904 (5) J Venn has photo of mill in w/o c1890 (6) HWL (a) derelict with cap, stocks, 3 sail frames and damaged fan (7) A C Smith (WIBAO) (a) house-converted with cap and spokes of fantail (8) UOK (MC) (a-b) disused with stocks and 3 sails, April 1932 (c) ditto (one sail hidden by tower) October 1934 (d) disused with cap, stocks and 3 sails, May 1947
(W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
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