Over, The Mill c.1965
Photo ref: O114010
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This tower mill could be seen working from the St Ives to Cambridge train in the 1950s. It has a fantail and two double-shuttered patent sails with two common sails that carry canvas sheets, and there are two pairs of grinding stones. The mill was built in c1860 for £450, using material from an old smock mill.

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This photo shows me, my mother and two of my sisters walking home, in either 1967 or 1968. I am the small boy looking back towards the camera. We lived in a bungalow not visible in the photo, on the left hand side almost opposite the large house on the right. This house was owned by Mrs Turner, from whom we would buy our eggs and whenever we went round there, she would always give us a Nuttalls Mintoe.