South Normanton windmill, Derbyshire 🌍

South Normanton #1470

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(53.10027,-1.3413) (approximate location)

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Post mill function:Corn mill - remains dismantled and put in storage, but kept so badly that most are believed to have completely rotted away

Survived for many years as an open framework, before being dismantled.

South Normanton

South Normanton, 1978 © Alan Gifford

South Normanton

South Normanton, 1946

South Normanton as stored

South Normanton as stored, 1995 © Alan Gifford

South Normanton earliest known photograph

South Normanton earliest known photograph

Entry in Mills Archive database - #1470 - The Post Mill, South Normanton

Muggeridge Collection photos

537646 - Normanton Common. South Normanton, 3/4 Rear. Obl. Derby.
537647 - Normanton Common. South Normanton Front. Derby.
537648 - Normanton Common South Normanton Trestle As Detail, Derby.
537649 - Normanton Common. South Normanton 3/4 Rear Derby.
537650 - Normanton Common, South Normanton, 3/4 Fr. Derby.
537651 - South Normanton Common 3/4-Fr. Derby.
537652 - South Normanton Common 3/4-Rear Derby.
537653 - South Normanton Common, 3/4-Fr. Derby.
F183642 - Normanton Common. South Normanton. Derby. 6 Aug 1958. (colour slide)
F183643 - Normanton Common. South Normanton. Derby. 6 Aug 1958. (colour slide)

South Normanton,the Old Windmill c1955,Derbyshire

South Normanton, the Old Windmill c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection

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