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Haverhill Road, Stapleford old photos

Old photos of Haverhill Road, Stapleford include Stapleford Windmill

Houses on Haverhill Road which have now been demolished

This is a photo of Stapleford Windmill in 1932. There are now no remains of the mill.

The eight-sided smock mill was built on the hill to the south of Haverhill Road, Stapleford in 1804. It was used until 1905. The sails had been taken down by 1939 and the brick base was removed in 1961.

The Willis family were millwrights from the 1790s to the 1870s. They built a tower windmill north-east of the village in 1804. He had to promise that its turning sails would not frighten horses ploughing nearby. The mill was later run by the Rawlings family.

The mill stopped work in 1905, was derelict by the 1930s with four stocks which had gone by 1939.

During the early years of the Second World War it served as a look-out for the Home Guard. It deteriorated rapidly and the superstructure collapsed.

It collapsed on 22nd June 1945 as witessed by the farmer owner Basil Beavis. The ten foot high brick base and some gear and timbers survived until demolished and clearance late in 1961 for arable. The site lies east of the village and east of Haverhill Road and is recognised as National Monument Record 498929 and Cher Number 04793 & 0821

[G.T. Hall. A few notes on Stapleford windmill - Cambs. Local History Council Bulletin, 1959]

The photo was taken by H.C. Hughes for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society’s Cambridgeshire Photographic Survey.

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This is a photo of Stapleford Windmill in 1932. A Windmill was built on the hill to the south of Haverhill Road, Stapleford in 1804. It was used until 1905. The sails had been taken down by 1939 and the brick base was removed in 1961. The Willis family were millwrights from the 1790s to the 1870s. They built a tower windmill north-east of the village in 1804. He had to promise that its turning sails would not frighten horses ploughing nearby. The mill was later run by the Rawlings family.

During the early years of the Second World War it served as a look-out for the Home Guard. It deteriorated rapidly and the superstructure collapsed. By 1959 the brick base remained together with some of the old wheels and larger timbers, overgrown by bushes and weeds. [G.T. Hall. A few notes on Stapleford windmill - Cambs. Local History Council Bulletin, 1959]

This is a drawing of Stapleford Windmill in 1915. A Windmill was built on the hill to the south of Haverhill Road, Stapleford in 1804. It was used until 1905. The sails had been taken down by 1939 and the brick base was removed in 1961. The Willis family were millwrights from the 1790s to the 1870s. They built a tower windmill north-east of the village in 1804. He had to promise that its turning sails would not frighten horses ploughing nearby. The mill was later run by the Rawlings family.

During the early years of the Second World War it served as a look-out for the Home Guard. It deteriorated rapidly and the superstructure collapsed. By 1959 the brick base remained together with some of the old wheels and larger timbers, overgrown by bushes and weeds. [G.T. Hall. A few notes on Stapleford windmill - Cambs. Local History Council Bulletin, 1959]

This is a photo of Stapleford Windmill. A Windmill was built on the hill to the south of Haverhill Road, Stapleford in 1804. It was used until 1905. The sails had been taken down by 1939 and the brick base was removed in 1961. The Willis family were millwrights from the 1790s to the 1870s. They built a tower windmill north-east of the village in 1804. He had to promise that its turning sails would not frighten horses ploughing nearby. The mill was later run by the Rawlings family.

During the early years of the Second World War it served as a look-out for the Home Guard. It deteriorated rapidly and the superstructure collapsed. By 1959 the brick base remained together with some of the old wheels and larger timbers, overgrown by bushes and weeds. [G.T. Hall. A few notes on Stapleford windmill - Cambs. Local History Council Bulletin, 1959]

This is a photo of Stapleford Windmill in 1932. A Windmill was built on the hill to the south of Haverhill Road, Stapleford in 1804. It was used until 1905. The sails had been taken down by 1939 and the brick base was removed in 1961. The Willis family were millwrights from the 1790s to the 1870s. They built a tower windmill north-east of the village in 1804. He had to promise that its turning sails would not frighten horses ploughing nearby. The mill was later run by the Rawlings family.

During the early years of the Second World War it served as a look-out for the Home Guard. It deteriorated rapidly and the superstructure collapsed. By 1959 the brick base remained together with some of the old wheels and larger timbers, overgrown by bushes and weeds. [G.T. Hall. A few notes on Stapleford windmill - Cambs. Local History Council Bulletin, 1959]

Stapleford windmill

Stapleford Recreation Ground, Haverhill Road, Stapleford in the 1960s. @Francis Frith Collection

Middlefield, Haverhill Road, Stapleford. Starred grade II listed building. Designed in 1908 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Henry Bond of Trinity Hall, a Lecturer in Law. The house was later called Mount Blow, but has now reverted to its original name. Associated with Middlefield, though not listed buildings, are Middlefield Lodge, now called The House on the Hill, Middlefield Cottage and Keeper’s Cottage, all of them probably designed in Lutyens’ workshop.