Photographs: There are exterior photographs in the Archive including one dated 1877.
Type: Smock. Tower and cap shown painted white in all Archive photographs.
Machinery: The mill worked three pairs of stones. There were four spring sweeps and fantail.
Date built: earlier than 1845
Dates ceased work Last worked by Mr George Prebble who came to the mill from Newchurch in 1899.
Date disappeared: Pulled down in about 1910 by Mr George Jarvis of Bethersden who was given the material of the mill as payment for the demolition work. The sweeps were removed and relocated to a mill at Woodchurch. The brick base was left and subsequently roofed over as a store.
Names of associated people and dates:  
Millers

1845 – T Williams

1851, 1855 – B Hobbs

1862 – T Cheesman

1866 – B Hobbs

1874, 1878 – Edward Marchant

1887, 1890, 1895 - Edward Gaaston

1899 – Thomas Bills

1903, 1905, 1907 – George Prebble and Son

Millers (steam) are also recorded for 1913 - 1927

Visit by Stoyels: EWS and BDS visited 18.09.1969 reporting that there was a tarred brick octagonal one storey base, roofed with corrugated iron. There were doorways in the east and west walls and a window in the north wall. There was no indication of the then use of the building.
INFORMATION SOURCE: EW and BD Stoyel (see Stoyel Kent Windmill notes for their further references)
MAT DOC REF: CFM 2006

 

 

 



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