Reported on this day in 1938 -
Daily News, 14 January 1938
THE WINDMILL MAN
PRESERVATION of windmills has become the self-imposed task of Mr. Donald Smith, headmaster of Park Senior School, Dagenham.
He is the chief adviser to the Open Spaces Committee of the Essex County Council,
which has approved a grant of £500 to preserve the three or four dozen windmills of Essex.
"The building of windmills demanded a high standard of skill, and their wooden machinery is wonderful," said Mr. Smith to the News Chronicle.
That's a remarkably bland report by the newspaper - Smith had already in 1932 produced a book, English Windmills, Vol. 2, for the SPAB,
covering windmills in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London.
Donald Smith