Fen Drainage Timeline 852 to Present Day
…1600 Dutch Engines ( Windmills ) started to be used to drain fens. also Accession of James 1 1603 Commission attempted to tax locals for drainage work. 1613 Moulton and…
…1600 Dutch Engines ( Windmills ) started to be used to drain fens. also Accession of James 1 1603 Commission attempted to tax locals for drainage work. 1613 Moulton and…
Published by E.R. Swain of Holbeach, a lovely postcard of Gedney Dyke Mill. Sent in 1906 by Mr. J.W. Munson of the Mill House, to Mr. Cott, wheelwright, Kirton….
…W. J. Atkinson, J.W. Rowland, T. Diggle, J. W. Measures, Henry Casswell, R, M. Mills, and J. S. Patchett—exhibited some very useful cattle, and: gave an earnest that they intend…
…antiquity, and is probably Mula Tun (the settlement of Mula). There is little substance in the suggestion that it has anything to do with mills. Windmills were uncommon in England…
…applies for over £2million of HLF funding. Send emails to sneathsmill@btinternet.com or visit there website www.sneathsmill.org.uk. The following is a description from Windmills of Lincolnshire by Jon Sass. A re-used…
This is an extract from Spalding History by G C H Smith dated 1966. Pinchbeck Manor House In Saxon times, Pinchbeck was an important place attached to Crowland Abbey during…
The Mill at Sutton St James was built in 1814. It operated as a wind powered Mill for 100years. After this it was powered an engine until the 1950’s when…
A be-smocked fowler seeks out the best, his punt gun loaded and ready – Stanley Jepson With the opening of the £27,000 pumping station near Brotherhouse Bar, the drainage of…
A newspaper article by the Spalding Guardian about the demolition of the old Water Tower at Weston in 1974. Who remembers the tower ? Click on image to enlarge…
Conditions of contract Locks Mill PS 1938 pt 1 Conditions of contract Locks Mill PS 1938 pt 2…
Penny Hill Mill, Holbeach 1934. This tower mill was built in 1826-7 on the site of a smock mill. It originally had four patent sails driving three pairs of stones…
Crowland Post Mill was built in the late 1790s and worked for just under a hundred years before going out of use. The windmill was burnt down in 1911. A…
What I can gather this small 4 bladed windmill was built in1825 possibly as a drainage wind mill as there was said to be a small creek behind.It was owned…
Erected in 1798 as a short, well ‘battered’ mill, this tower mill was later raised by another floor, resulting in a rather pleasing concave tower which survives today. This work…
A photo of Crowland Post Mill, Dated 1905. The mill was situated on Postland Road. It was built in 1796 and survived until 1911 when it was burnt down on…
