As the inventor of a windmill system, E. Lancaster Burne has a place in the development of the windmill. Edward (Teddy) Lancaster Burne was born in 1869 and was apprenticed in the locomotive engine works at Nine Elms (London) under the locomotive engineer Strudley. In 1902 he set up as a consultant engineer in Victoria…
Photograph by Brian Flint, 1971.Pasted in Peter Dolman’s copy of ‘Windmills and Millwrighting’. DOLM/6521 Stanley Harman Freese was born in 1902. He first became interested in mills when on holiday at Darsham, Suffolk in 1923, and cycled extensively throughout England sketching and photographing mills and other features of the countryside. Some of these journeys were…
Herbert Edward Sydney Simmons, known to his friends as Syd, was born at Washington, Sussex in 1901. As a young man was a member of the Cyclist’s Touring Club, spending his weekends and holidays cycling in the country. It was as a result of this that he became interested in Mills. In 1931 he toured…
Hallam Ashley was born on 9 July 1900, and spent his early years in Nottinghamshire. His father and grandfather were both professional photographers; the family photographic and picture-framing business was established in Retford in the nineteenth century and moved to Sutton in Ashfield in 1904. Aged almost 18, Hallam left home to sign up for…
