Here's my contribution, courtesy of the Records Office at Liverpool City Library:
Fantastic pics, Ta.
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There was once a windmill in Smithdown Lane too.....
Last edited by theninesisters; 03-23-2007 at 07:59 PM.
The illustrations in Kev's post are (L-R, top to bottom):
Wavertree 1909;
Springfield Mill, Walton Road 1919 (built about 1800, demolished in the 1920s or 30s);
Limekiln Lane (i.e. Lime Street Station site) 1771;
Springfield Mill again;
Wavertree c1895;
Shaw’s Brow (roughly the site of the Walker Art Gallery) c1825 – there were two windmills here, plus one on the site of the fountain outside the Art Gallery and the row of windmills along where Lime Street station now is);
Junction of Marybone and Stockdale Street (now under the course of Leeds St, I think – I can’t find any record of this windmill except this one painting);
New Townsend Mill, North Shore (near the junction of Waterloo Road and Regent Street). Built 1792, burnt out 1880 and the three storey stump demolished in 1953;
New Townsend Mill again;
Shaw’s Brow again (viewed from roughly where the Tunnel entrance is now)
Wishing Gate Mill (roughly where the north end of Bath Street is);
Wishing Gate again;
Mill by St Alban’s Church, Bevington Bush. There were four windmills here until the 1860s and the tower of the most northerly one was still there in the 1960s.
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There were a total of 74 windmills in Liverpool between 1250 and 1900, and remains of five still existed until after 1945 – Scott’s or Wilson’s Mill, Toxteth (demolished c1960); Leicester’s Mill, Scotland Road / Bevington Bush (demolished 1960s); New Townsend Mill (demolished 1953); Wavertree (remains of foundations cleared away in 1986); Newsham Park.
Newsham Park mill was built in 1868-69 to maintain the water levels in the lakes. The builder was James Burroughs and Son of Liverpool (quote for the work £380), machinery by Owens and Co. of London (£138). It remained in use until the 1920s at least, and was demolished in 1954.
Gareth
Anyone ever seen this Liverpool windmill?
Thanks Gareth, I remember Newsham Park mill when I was a kid. This is the most information I have ever seen about it.
Newsham Park mill was built in 1868-69 to maintain the water levels in the lakes. The builder was James Burroughs and Son of Liverpool (quote for the work £380), machinery by Owens and Co. of London (£138). It remained in use until the 1920s at least, and was demolished in 1954.
Gareth
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
That Mill is in Colin Wilkinson's book 'Liverpool from the air'. I#ve also seen Springfield and Scotland Road disused Mills in other books I have.
When I was young I was dragged along to see something getting demolished on the flour mill site (Wilson King/Scotts mill etc). I was viewing from Corn Street, looking towards Bran Street area. There was a crowd of people around. You don't really take notice of such things when you're young, so it could well have been a chimney for all I know.
This couldn't have been any earlier than the late 1960s.
Hi PhilipG
I took photographs of Scott's Mill in Toxteth for a project on local mills for architecture class at Quarry Bank High School, where I attended 1965-1967, so I know the old windmill was still there at that time. Those photos are among a pile of photos of old Liverpool that I have to get digitized.
Chris
Christopher T. George
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Editor, Loch Raven Review
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Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
Thanks everyone, especially Chris for the dates.
I was 99% sure I'd seen it marked on a 1966 OS map.
Now I'm 100% sure.
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