c.1910
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North Tuddenham
Mill Farm postmill |
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c.1910 |
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North Tuddenham Mill Farm postmill had a two storey buck with a leanto porch and stable door, that was set on a single storey roundhouse. The four double shuttered patent sails, struck by a lever, drove 2 pairs of French burr stones and an oat crusher. The outermost pair of sails had 6 bays of 3 shutters and the inner pair had the same configuration with the addition of a single bay of 2 shutters. The mill was turned to wind by a six bladed fantail set on a carriage. |
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c.1914 |
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The mill had 4 double shuttered spring sails containing 6 bays of 3 and 1 bay of 2 on the innermost sails. The six bladed fantail along with a sack chute were on the ladder, which led up to a leanto porch. The two storey mill buck contained 2 French burr stones and an oat roller. The two doored roundhouse was brick tarred. |
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Closeup from the photo above c.1914 - visitors not Fayers family |
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NORWICH, June 10, Wednesday was committed to the Castle,
Sam Dawson, of Swanton Morley, charged on the oath of Dennis Durrant,
of Tuddenham, Miller, with breaking open the windmill of the said Durrant
and stealing thereout about 16 stone of wheat flour etc. which he has
confessed (also charged with stealing a coomb of wheat from a farmer -
also confessed to this). |
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ASSIZE NEWS |
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2nd April 1938 |
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To Millers and others |
| To be Sold by Auction. By CHARLES LULMAN At the King's
Arms, East Dereham On Friday 12th December 1817 at 4 o'clock The following desirable SITUATION in the Milling Trade at North Tuddenham, within 3 miles of East Dereham and 12 of Norwich, situate next the turnpike road from the former to the latter place; comprising a new built Brick and Tiled Dwelling House, stable, cart lodge with a Capital Post windmill and 5a. 2r. of excellent land as the whole is now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Durrant, the proprietor. Part of the Purchase money may remain on the premises. Apply to Messrs. Steward & Skipper, Solicitors, Norwich, Mr. John Beckham of Etling Green near East Dereham or to the Auctioneer or the proprietor on the premises. Norfolk Chronicle - 29th November & 6th December 1817 |
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NORTH TUDDENHAM |
| Mr. BUTCHER will Sell by Auction at the King's Arms
Inn, East Dereham on Friday August27, 1847 at 4 o'clock A Brick and Tiled Dwelling House and Shop, Barn, Stables, WINDMILL with two floors and Roundhouse underneath and 5 Pightles of excellent Arable Land containing together 5a. 0r. 0p. or thereabouts, now in the occupation of Mr. B. Farman as tenant from year to year. Particulars of Mr. Durrant, Solicitor, Surrey Street, or of Mr. Butcher, Auctioneer, Theatre Street, Norwich Norfolk Chronicle - 29th November 1817 |
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NORTH TUDDENHAM |
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Herbert Rix supplemented wind power some time before WW I with a portable steam engine, that was housed, without its wheels in a shed beside the mill. |
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O.S. map 1952 - redrawn by Harry Apling |
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18th May 1980
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Sydney Herbert Fayers and Frederick Walter Fayers formed the partnership of Fayers Brothers in October 1903. They replaced the portable steam engine with a Tangye oil engine c.1919 but a few years later, in 1923, the mill was dismantled. In 1925 the Fayers Brothers were listed as corn factors and they retired in 1930. Frederick Walter Fayers died in 1936 and Sydney Herbert Fayers died in 1968 aged 90. |
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1989 |
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In 1984, the single storey roundhouse was still in situ with a modern roof and was being used as a store. It stood 8 feet high and was 24 feet in diameter with two doors opposite each other to allow access wherever the sails were turning. |
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O. S. Map 1882 Courtesy of NLS map images |
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White's 1890: Mr. John Lee Farman |
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1729: Mill
built 1864: Henry Farman, corn miller & shopkeeper
O.S. map 1882: Windmill (Corn) |
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