
Great Bardfield, 1995

Great Bardfield, 1997

Great Bardfield in the snow, 30/12/2000

Essex Countryside magazine cover showing the converted Gibraltar Mill at Great Bardfield, issue January 1969
Essex Countryside

East Anglian Magazine cover showing Gibraltar Mill at Great Bardfield, issue Aug 1966
East Anglian Magazine

East Anglian Magazine cover showing Gibraltar Mill at Great Bardfield, issue Nov 1972
East Anglian Magazine
tower millPhotos: (1) Farries 3 (a) disused with sails, 1934 (2) D W Smith (a) w/o (3) Wailes (TEW) (a) w/o (4) Wailes (EW) (a) great spur wheel (5) NMR (WC) (a-c) derelict with 2 sails (6) NMR (a) derelict with 4 sails (b-c) ditto, August 1932 (d) ditto, Sept 1935 (e) ditto, n.d. (f) derelict with 2 sails (magazine cutting) (g) as house-converted in 1970s, with cap and sails restored (magazine cutting) (7) UOK (MC) (a) derelict with 4 sails, 1932 (b) ditto, August 1932 (c) ditto, Sept 1934 (d-e) ditto, May 1936 (f-h) ditto, March 1941 (i-j) ditto, May 1942 (k) detail of fan, May 1942 (8) ERO (a-g) disused with 4 sails (h) derelict with 2 sails, 1950 (i) w/o (9) Col.l (a-c) w/o (except for some missing shutters) (10) TC (a) w/o, 1919 (11) Wailes (ASBOWAW) (a) w/o, with two men working on sails (12) Hopkins (a) w/o (13) ECC (DEW) (a) as house-converted (14) Turpin (a-b) as house-converted (15) Vince 1977 (a) as house-converted (16) ERO (FC) (a-b) w/o (b) w/o: close-up of cap and fan (c) w/o, mid-distance (d) w/o, with some shutters missing, 1930 (e) w/o, 1924 (f-g) w/o with men attending to sails (h) w/o, apart from shutters in disarray; silhouette at night, c1936 (i) governor in Bardfield Cottage Museum, 1970 (j) as house-converted, March 1959 (k) close-up of cap, fan and derelict sails, 1936 (l) as house-converted (from property section of Country Life Supplement, 25th December 1980) (m) rear view of cap, fanstage and winding gear, May 1942 (n-o) disused with four sails (p-q) derelict with four sails (r) derelict with four sails, May 1942 (s) disused with four sails, 1935 (t) disused with four sails, September 1934 (u) disused with four sails, May 1936 (v) disused with four sails, 1936 (w) disused with four sails, c1938 (x) rear view of cap, fanstage, fan and winding gear (y) under repairs with sails off and man standing on scaffolding beside poll end (close-up view with nothing else of mill visible) (z) great spur wheel (aa) one pair of stones (ab) pulley (ac) governors and tentering gear (ad) new cap roof under construction (on ground?) with windshaft and brakewheel inside
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Mill Road, Great Bardfield, Braintree, Essex, CM7 4QG
27 Mar 2002 - Photograph (Digital)