Toppesfield windmill, Essex 🌍

Photos: (1) Hopkins (a) derelict with sails (2) Farries 5 (a) derelict with sails (b) stone nut and bridge tree (3) P Gifford (a) derelict with sails, same view as Farries 5 (4) ECC (DEW) (a-b) derelict with cap frame, late C20 (5) East Anglian Magazine, 1950s (date not noted) (a) derelict with sails, possibly c1930 (6) NMR (a-b) derelict with sails, April 1933 (c) derelict with sails, September 1935 (d) derelict with sails, n.d. (e) derelict with windshaft, brakewheel and 4 sails, September 1947 (f) fan hub and gearing, plus fragments of blades, lying at base of tower, with steam engine in background, April 1933 (7) Turpin (WIE) (a) derelict with cap frame (8) UOK (MC) (a) derelict with 4 sails, Sept 1935 (b) derelict with 4 sails, April 1941 (9) ERO (a) derelict with 4 sails, 1924 (earlier than other surviving photos of mill as the sail which is usually seen broken is intact) (b) derelict with cap frame, as Turpin (c) derelict with 3 and a half sails, early-mid C20 (10) TC (a) w/o, middle distance, 28th June 1920 (11) ERO (FC) (a) w/o, but one sail stripped of shutters and man working on cap gallery, with curved ladder like the one at Stansted placed against dome of cap; mill evidently under repair (b-c) derelict with windshaft, brakewheel and four sails (d) internal view looking up through openings in floors, showing part of great spur wheel, May 1971 (e) part of floor beam, May 1971 (f) part of tentering gear with governors, layshaft and bevel wheel, May 1971 (g) great spur wheel, stone nut, quant and underside of stone, May 1971 (h) the derelict capless tower, May 1971 (i) ladder and flooring, May 1971 (j) w/o, middle distance, June 1920 (k) part of millstone showing the lead filling for balancing it, June 1971 (l) great spur wheel and bevel wheel, May 1971 (m) great spur wheel, stone nut and auxiliary drive gear, May 1971 (n) upright shaft and two pairs of stones, May 1964 (o) two pairs of stones, May 1964 (p) upright shaft and three pairs of stones, May 1971 (q) upright shaft, wallower and remains of cap frame with centring wheels, May 1971 (r) upright shaft, cap frame and centring wheels, May 1971 (s-u) derelict with 4 sails (v) derelict with 4 sails, 1935 (w) section of upright shaft, June 1971