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Club Mill, Windmill Avenue, Hucknall, 1920s ?

Windmill Avenue
Hucknall
England

Looking west up Windmill Avenue towards Sandy Lane and showing Club Mill, which ground corn to produce flour and took its name from Hucknall 's first Friendly Society or Sick Club. Club Mill was a post mill with a central shaft supporting the main body of the structure, which could be turned to face the wind. The building to the right was a steam-powered mill, added about 1880. Both structures were later demolished. J H Beardsmore in his History of Hucknall Torkard (1909) records: 'On Christmas Eve, 1795, the members [of the Friendly Society] bought the Windmill, which stood on the knoll behind the present-day Victoria Cottage, on a site owned by Mr H Smith. The mill itself belonged to Mr Thomas Needham, then resident at Whyburn Farm, who sold it to the Club for

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