Grid Ref: TA 302084
Stood on the left hand side of Mill Road at its brow accessed by a driveway above Glanford House. The mill was built c1812/20 for Mr John Nicholson, Mayor or Grimsby. A four storied brick tower mill with ogee cap, eight bladed fantail and four single sided patent sails rotating anti clockwise. The mill contained three pairs of stones, flour dresser etc. During the storm in early January 1839 this mill together with that in Mill Place was badly damaged “the sails and axle of the mill were torn away and broken to atoms.” (Hull advertiser January 11th 1839).
A bake house was added to the business by Thomas Nicholson Frankish and the mill and bakery were in the Frankish family up to 1871 when they moved to a bakery in Sea View Street. Mr. Bratley of Mill Place Mill, Scawby Brook, Brigg took over the mill and built Glanford House nearby. After the death of Mr. Bratley in the 1920’s Mrs. Bratley let it to other tenants. The house is presently owned by Mr. Brian Ferrier (2001)
In 1905 the Frankish family took over the windmill again for five years as tenants of Mr. Bratley and started grinding animal feeds. Standard white flour produced at Marshalls roller mills had finished the trade for stone ground flour. However when the large detached villas at the end of Mill Road were built (Chas Osbornes. William Grant – Croft Bakers, (later the Maternity Home) these acted as a shield and so screened the mill sails.
They built a mill in Whites Road using gas engine power and abandoned the windmill. The mill was dismantled in the 1920’s by Thompson’s the Alford Millwrights and the cap was removed and fitted to the five sailed windmill at Spittle Hill in Gainsborough. The tower was built of soft bricks and showed signs of brick erosion in photographs in the early 20th Century.
Millers
Whites 1826 Thomas Taylor, Mill Hill Far Cleethorpes
Thomas Frankish Top Mill
Thomas Frankish Jnr.
1872 Thomas Bratley, Top Mill Crow Hill
Thomas Bratley, Mill Road
Thomas Bratley, Mill Road
Frankish (Tenant) Bratley owner.
Hull Advertiser 11th January 1839
During the storm on Monday last the sails and axle of the mill occupied by Mr. Frankish of Cleethorpes was torn away and broken to atoms.
