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Page 6

Newsletter 136 Spring 2022   © Hampshire Mills Group

 

 

Letters

 

 

 

Chalton Windmill  from Russell Jones

I have just bought this copy of a photograph off ebay.  It is the best photograph I have seen of Chalton windmill and dates from the early 1900s.  I have seen other photos of it in a similar condition stated to date around that time.  It ceased work in the 1880s/1890s and was derelict by the 1930s.  Perhaps you might like to include it in a forthcoming newsletter?

The raised ground floor does not look particularly easy to access and exit, though I suppose it was about cart height.  Note also the cellar window hatches.  Perhaps one day an earlier photograph will turn up showing the mill in working order.

 

 

(above left)
Russell’s newly purchased photo

 

 (above right)
In 1970
Arthur Lowe

 

 

 

 

 

(right)
In 1980 after restoration
Arthur Lowe

 

 

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