Stokesby cum Herringby towermill was a 5 storey, tarred red brick mill and was built in 1826 to drive 2 pairs of stones. Although not obvious from the photos, the mill stood fairly close to the road in the mill house garden.

HALVERGATE (& Stokesby)
Spelmans on instructions from the Executors of E. E. Trett, decd. will Sell by Auction on6 June 1917 at the Star Hotel, Great Yarmouth the following valuable properties
At Stokesny
Nine capital cottages & gardens and Stokesby Mill with house & land.
At Halvergate
Well situated Halvergate Mill with bake office, dwelling house etc.
Yarmouth Independent - 19th May 1917

It was last worked by Edward Elijah Trett jnr. who was renting the mill from his father, Edward Elijah Trett snr. When Edward snr. died in 1916 the mill was put up for auction and probably never worked again. The cap had gone by the late 1970s but the mill was weatherproof and still contained some machinery.

Unallocated millers:
John Durrant, Thomas Capon and Edward Mayhew

1826: Mill built

White's 1836: Robert Ransome, corn miller

White's 1845: Robert Ransome, miller

White's 1883: James Frosdick, miller, shopkeeper, pork butcher and overseer

1888: Auxiliary steam power installed

Kelly's 1896: Edward E. Trett, miller (steam & wind)

Census 1901: Thomas W. Gowen (16) corn miller's clerk; Wiliam Cossey (51 corn miller's labourer

1916: Edward Elijah Trett jnr

1916: Edward Elijah Trett snr died

1916: Mill ceased to operate

May 1917: Mill advertised for sale by auction along with Halvergate towermill

1978: Cap gone but tower roofed

1991: Mill tower still standing but truncated

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