Burgh St Peter towermill
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Mill and mill house - 18th August 1939 |
Burgh St Peter towermill was a five storey mill built c.1825 in red brick and was probably built to supplement the nearby Wheatacre_postmill that was also worked by James Sayer. In the early 1800s Burgh St. Peter was also known as Wheatacre Burgh. |
In 1839 it was advertised as being nearly new and was equipped with patent sails on an iron windshaft with stones and a flour mill. A steam auxiliary engine had been installed by 1872 and the mill was mainly producing grist rather than flour using 3 pairs of underdriven stones on the 2nd floor. An additional 2 pairs of 4ft 6ins French burr stones were added in 1906. The mill had 4 double shuttered sails, each with 10 bays of 3 shutters, a boat shaped cap with a gallery and 6 bladed fan with a chain pole. |
WHEATACRE BURGH |
To Millers |
Watercolour by Karl Wood in 1937 |
Situations Vacant |
Burgh St. Peter |
Burgh St. Peter |
Burgh St. Peter. One mile from Aldeby Station. |
Well built brick freehold Tower wind flour mill in substantial & good working order, has 5 floors, driving 3 pairs of stones, with dwelling house, stables, gig house, cart shed & roomy barn attached, also two cottages adjoining. |
Burgh St. Peter near Beccles |
Mill and mill house 1949 |
To be Sold by Private Contract |
4th August 1975 |
The above map also shows the older Wheatacre postmill to the west of the towermill. |
October 1989 |
October 1999 |
1990 |
Mr. George Jeffries, in his straw boater and wearing no gloves even in winter, was once a familiar sight driving his miller's cart around The Triangle and neighbouring parishes. To tether his horse when he made calls, he placed iron rings in trees. Some of these can still be seen, one in the tree at the end of the drive to Mill House, Wheatacre, one in an elm opposite the entrance to Wheatacre Church, where he was churchwarden and one in the oak tree on the opposite side of the road to the pit down Common Road, Aldeby. Mill stones from Burgh Mill, removed when it went out of use, can now be seen used as doorsteps by the roadside at Priory Farm, Aldeby. |
13th March 2009 |
O.S. Map 1883 Courtesy of NLS map images |
White's 1845: William Sayer, farmer |
1839: James Sayer & Robert Moore |
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Copyright © Jonathan Neville 2005 |