Windmills in Essex Countryside Magazine 🌍
"Essex Countryside" magazine
Essex Countryside magazine is a rich source of both contemporary
and historical information on Essex windmills.
The following is an incomplete listing of relevant information
NB. This is an incomplete survey, based merely on the issues of the
magazine that I could easily consult. The following issues were also
checked, but no windmill references found:
- 1966 - Jan,March,April
- 1967 - April
- 1968 - Nov
- 1971 - March
- 1972 - Dec
- 1973 - Sept,Nov
- 1974 - Sept
- 1978 - May
- 1984 - March,July,Dec
- 1985 - March,April,Aug,Dec
- 1986 - May,Dec
- Aug 63:
p449
Readers Forum:
some details of Barling Magna smock mill;
request for info about a windmill near Collier Row/Como Street, Romford;
picture postcard of Waltham Abbey post mill
[2739]
- Dec 64:
p112
Readers Forum:
location of Chadwell Heath mill;
recollections of Barking mill;
old photo of Wimbish smock mill
[]
- Dec 64:
p114
news of demolition of Moreton mill;
photo and details of mill between Little Saling and Bardfield (in advanced state of decay)
[2367]
- May 66:
p517
Readers Forum: memories of Barling windmill
[2739]
- June 67:
p628
article "Stock's fine tower mill" by Sam Johns
(number 1 in the series 'The windmills of Essex')
[2691]
- July 67:
p719
photo of Finchingfield post mill
[2430]
- July 67:
p727
article "Billericay's derelict post mill" by Sam Johns describing the remains of the mill which collapsed in 1928
(number 2 in the series 'The windmills of Essex')
- April 68:
p45
Readers Forum:
details of the two demolished windmills in Galleywood, with a photo of one of them (the smock mill on London Hill).
- Oct 68:
p54
Letters in brief: notes plans to repair the mill at Tiptree
[2461]
- Jan 69:
Front cover
Gibraltar mill, Great Bardfield
[2428]
- Jan 69:
p45
Readers Forum: photo and letter about West Mersea post mill
[2485]
- April 69:
p24-26
article "Stock Windmill" by Adrian N Jones describing the tower mill at Stock
[2691]
- April 69:
p39
photo of house conversion at High Easter
[2407]
- April 69:
p57
photo of Tiptree tower mill
[2461]
- Nov 69:
p40-42
article "Essex Millwrights" by R W Malster,
including photos of Birch post mill, Tiptree tower mill, Terling smock mill, and Brightlingsea post mill being dismantled in 1913
[2461]
[2447]
- Nov 69:
p61
letters in brief: letter from son of apprentice at Billericay windmill
- Dec 69:
p31
photo of Gibraltar mill, Great Bardfield
[2428]
- Dec 69:
p54
Readers Forum: photo and letter on Mountnessing post mill with just 2 sails
[2677]
- Dec 69:
p55
photos and details of Thorpe-le-Soken post mill when complete, and as a dwelling conversion
[2512]
- Dec 69:
p58
full page photo of Mountnessing with full set of sails
[2677]
- Dec 69:
p66
a note that there are working windmills still in East Anglia and S.E England
- May 70:
p36
"In Constable's Country" by A Sinclair, with photos of Flatford Mill
- May 70:
p62
Letter in Brief: Letter from A W Hawkes about Hatfield Peveral watermill
- April 71:
p65
Readers Forum: Photo of Stapleford Abbots post mill circa 1922, in an advanced state of decay
- June 71:
p81
Letters in brief: mention of Stapleford Abbots windmill
- Sept 71:
p59
Readers Forum: Memories of Joe Doe, miller of Mountnessing windmill
[2677]
- Sept 71:
p77
Letters in brief: Letter and photo about the watermill at Garston Green, Little Hallingbury
- Dec 71:
p47
photo of Mountnessing mill
[2677]
- Dec 71:
p55
photo of windpump at Leigh Beck Farm, Canvey Island
- Dec 71:
p58
article "The mill on the hill at Moreton" by Geoffrey Tyrell, describing the post mill at Moreton which was pulled down in 1964
[2367]
- Dec 71:
p72
letters in brief: A H J Spooner requesting information on Bocking post mill,
Stansted tower mill,
Terling smock mill,
and Little Laver composite mill for a study of Essex windmills he was making
[2446]
[2359]
[2447]
[2370]
- Jan 72:
p29,31
article "Thaxted windmill to be restored" by Geoffrey Tyrell,
describing the work to clean and restore the mill, with a number of photos
[2404]
- Jan 72:
p55
photo of Felsted watermill
- Jan 72:
p77
photo from 23rd September 1937 of Mountnessing mill, and accompaning letter
[2677]
- May 72:
p25
colour photo of Ingatestone post mill
[2412]
- May 72:
p34
photo of Finchingfield post mill
[2430]
- May 72:
p64
Readers Forum: Letter on "Sad fate of smock mills" by Alan Cordell, with details of the state of various smock mills,
including Upminster, Terling, Orsett, South Ockenden, and Great Holland. Photos of Terling and Orsett.
[2447]
[2679]
[2667]
[2290]
[2653]
- May 72:
p64
Readers Forum: Letter on "Watermills" about the mills on the Chelmer.
- July 72:
p71
Readers Forum: photo and details of the repairs being carried out on Terling smock mill (written by the owner M A Cater)
[2447]
- Sept 72:
p63
photo of the circular brick base of Orsett mill, now used as a store house
[2682]
- Sept 72:
p66
photo of Upminster smock mill, taken in 1968
[2653]
- Nov 72:
p57
Readers Forum: letter and photos of White Roding tower mill in May 1937, and recently with a new cap
[2378]
- Jan 73:
p32
full page photo of Aythorpe Roding post mill
[2393]
- Jan 73:
p58
photo of Great Bardfield
[2428]
- Jan 73:
p64
Letters in Brief: A C Austin writes enquiring of the current state of windmills that existed in the 1930s at
Bovinger, East Tilbury, Great Canfield, Great Easton, Halstead, Henham, Matching Tye, High Roding, Little Dunmow,
Shrub End, West Tilbury.
[2363]
[2389]
[2405]
[2453]
[2371]
[2357]
[2417]
[2686]
- Feb 73:
p62
Readers Forum: Letter by F Hollinghurst, about Rayleigh windmill, with 1890 photo by Mr W F Gilson
[2709]
- March 73:
p36-7
"The story of Stansted Windmill" by Alison Barnes
[2359]
- March 73:
p54
Readers Forum: Letter by Anthony C Austin on Great Bardfield windmill.
[2428]
- April 73:
p69
Readers Forum: photos of High Easter smock mill in about 1913,
Hatfield Peveral post mill in about 1920,
together with a letter by R W Smith appealing for photos of a list of otherwise unrecorded mills
[2407]
- May 73:
p48
photo of Passingford Bridge watermill
- May 73:
p56
Readers Forum: Letter by A H J Spooner correcting historical details in March 73 article on Stansted windmill
[2359]
- May 73:
p56
Readers Forum: Letter by D Breckels (age 15) correcting March 73 article on Stansted windmill.
[2359]
- May 73:
p56
Readers Forum: Letter by Mrs Winfred Smith with memories of Stansted windmill
[2359]
- Aug 73:
Front cover
aerial view of Thaxted, showing tower mill
[2404]
- Oct 73:
p23
picture of Moreton post mill
[2367]
- Oct 73:
p44
picture of Abbey watermill, Coggeshall
- Oct 73:
p45
picture of Mountnessing post mill
[2677]
- Oct 73:
p65
picture of Torrington tide mill
- Nov 73:
p85
Readers Forum: Letter from Edna Smith expressing amazement at seeing derelict windmills in Norfolk.
- Dec 74:
p23
full page picture of Finchingfield post mill
[2430]
- Dec 74:
p78
photo of Mountnessing mill, with caption telling of the lost of a sail in Feb 73, and subsequent restoration in Aug 74 by
Lincolnshire millwrights, Thompson and Son
[2677]
- July 78:
p36
article "The mill at Bovinger or Bobbingworth - a parish with two names" by John May, with a watercolor illustration
[2363]
- Sept 79:
p60
article "Thaxted windmill restored and in full sail" by Ken Adams
[2404]
- Sept 79:
p61
photo for Baddow Road Mill, Chelmsford
- Oct 79:
p35
photo of Coggeshall mill
- Oct 79:
p40
1777 map of Little Canfield showing the windmill
[2399]
- Dec 79:
p65
photo of Sandford watermill
- Aug 80:
p27
photo of Barnes watermill, Chelmsford
- Sept 80:
p21
full photo of Rayleigh windmill by Grahame Howe
[2709]
- Aug 84:
p4
"Worth Reading - mills and millers", review by W G Sidney of the 3rd book in the series
"Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights" by Kenneth G Farries. Also reviews the SPAB "Mills open to the Public"
- Aug 84:
p34
article "You need friends to save a windmill" by David Tyler,
about the restorations and opening to the public of Mountnessing post mill.
[2677]
- July 85:
p14
"Worth Reading - Industry in agriculture", review by John H Boyes of the 4th volume in the series
"Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights" by Kenneth G Farries. Includes a photo
of South Ockendon smock mill, before its collapse.
[2667]
- Sept 85:
p2
advertisment by Strutt Daughters and Co selling Terling smock mill for £190,000, with photo
[2447]
- Sept 85:
Property Guide p4
describes the Old Mill, High Easter (a 1930's house conversion) for sale through Bairtsow Eves at £155,000
[2407]
- Oct 85:
p5
another ad for Terling mill, this time through Malcolm Danford and Co
[2447]
- Oct 85:
p21
photo of Fryerning post mill
[2412]
- Jan 86:
p15
article "Upminster Memories" by John Boyes, with photo and mentions of Upminster smock mill
[2653]
- Jan 86:
p44-5
illustrated article "Tradition at mill" by Lynne Dupree about Town Mill, Stebbing, one of the few
remaining working watermills in the British Isles
- March 86:
p59
article "The Ghastly Miller of Billericay" by George Palmer,
about Thomas Wood 1719-1783 who milled at two windmills in Billericay
- April 86:
p2
advertisment by Abbots offering for sale Ramsey post mill, mill house, and coach house for £145,000 ono, with photo
[2518]
- April 86:
p3
Property guide: gives more details on Ramsey mill, built in 1842
[2518]
- April 86:
p37
photo of Great Bardfield mill
[2428]
- Aug 86:
p38
photo of a pottery model of Mountnessing windmill
[2677]
- Aug 86:
p54
photo and description of Jim Wilkinson's turbine powered catamaran boat, capable of sailing directly into the wind
- Oct 99:
p12
historic postcard showing Upminster windmill
[2653]
- Oct 99:
p29-33
"There's an old mill by the stream" by Paula Short about Town Mill, Stebbing
- Oct 99:
p66
News of £75,000 grant for Sandford mill, Chelmsford
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