Chairman's Autumn Report October 2004:
After a successful series of site events in 2004 the mill spent an uneventful winter, with our miller, John Liles, making repairs to the windows and preparing her for the new season.
This year Waltham Windmill is due to be tarred and painted, so by the end of the year will look fresh and gleaming once more!
To support the costs of this and other routine maintenance we have our usual full programme of events, including our Auction, nine car boot sales, fireworks and Race Night. Thanks to all our supporters, many of whom attend our events regularly.
I would like to put out a request for information about the mill, and about any of the other local mills: in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Scartho. We would like to hear from anyone who lived in the railway carriage at the mill or worked in any of the local mills. If you have any stories to tell we would love to record them. If you have any photographs/drawings of the mill, in whatever condition, I would love to carefully copy them onto my computer and return them the next day. Any expenses incurred by you, such as postage, photocopying or packaging, would of course be reimbursed. I am also Hon. Archivist of a county mills group, and with your permission and copyright acknowledgement the information would be forwarded to the national Mills Archive.
If you search for information online about local mills there is very little available: the two Cleethorpes mills, Scartho Mill or any of the Grimsby mills such as Norfolk's bone mill, East Marsh Street, the drainage pump at Ainslie Street/Garden Street cemetery, Hollingworth's post mill in Cartergate, or even W Marshall & Sons roller flour mills (Victoria Mills and Haven Mills).
Chairman's Autumn Report October 2005:
We are coming to the end of the season: the mill has been freshly painted and tarred, and is looking very smart. It is closed to the general public from the end of October, but private parties can be arranged during the winter by contacting the Miller on 01472 822425.
We have had a good season of car boot sales, averaging about 35 sellers and 800 buyers per event. These were held during the summer at roughly three-week intervals, a total of nine throughout the season. The next event is the Firework display on November 5th, followed by the Race Night meeting at Ross Hall, Waltham on November 18th.
The restaurant has been hugely renovated and is due to reopen soon (end of October).
The Chairman particularly wishes to thank the stewards who have run the car boot sales - this involves a very early start on the relevant Sundays - sellers have been known to be on site at 5.30 a.m.!!
Were always looking for new members for the Preservation Society: fund-raising is very rewarding, both psychologically and financially. We have spent over £12,000 this year on routine mantenance.
During the winter our Miller, John Liles, will be busy painting the inside of the mill, dressing the stones and general maintenance.
Waltham Windmill Preservation Society
