Maud Foster Milll, Willoughby Road, Boston, Lincolnshire: the five-sailer tower mill with ogee cap
Architect/Designer | Norman & Smithson |
Artist/Photographer | Lambert, Sam (1927-1981) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Boston |
Subject Date | 1819 |
Image Date | 1968 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Georgian |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | AP152/178 (Lambert 68654/52) |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Canals ; Windmills ; Brickwork ; Mills |
NOTES: Built for Thomas and Isaac Reckitt in 1819 by the Hull millwrights Norman & Smithson, this windmill ground corn that was brought in by barge along the Maud Foster Sluice, built by John Rennie in 1807. It was a working mill until it was closed in 1942. The windmill was preserved as a landmark in 1953.
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