Great Chishill Windmill is unsafe: the trestle has large cracks in its woodwork; weather boards are broken and letting in the rain; it no longer rotates on its track.
But not for long if YOU are prepared to help.
Please use our form under Contact Us to offer your services or the Donate button on our Home page to contribute to the restoration fund.
The mill worked until 1951 and many people have fond memories of the sails turning. Below are a number of photographs from the past and present to show why we must save this icon of the English countryside for future generations.
But not for long if YOU are prepared to help.
Please use our form under Contact Us to offer your services or the Donate button on our Home page to contribute to the restoration fund.
The mill worked until 1951 and many people have fond memories of the sails turning. Below are a number of photographs from the past and present to show why we must save this icon of the English countryside for future generations.
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Four photographs taken in 1939 by a Mr Glazier. Emergency repairs had been carried out in 1938 to reinforce the trestle and cover much of the buck with corrugated iron.
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Five photographs taken in 1958 by Mr Lyn Owen.
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The windmill in 1991, also by Mr Lyn Owen.
2003, once more from Mr Lyn Owen. All photographs reproduced by kind permission of his family.
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EXPERTS VISIT THE WINDMILL
Members of SPAB, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings September 2011
