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A great big thank you from myself and the Festival group for all your support and hard work on the day of the festival. We could not have done it without you, it was a team effort. 879 people came to Windmill Gardens on the day.

Festival Photos

The Country show is on the 17th and 18th at Brockwell Park from 9.30 am to 6pm. We need member's to help on our stall talking to the public about the Mill, recruiting new members, so if you have a spare couple of hours please do get in touch, by replying to this email. Please email festival@brixtonwindmill.org.uk if you can help. Many thanks.

Spring Newsletter

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Heritage Lottery Bid Success

With Lambeth Council the friends have been successful in the latest bid for Heritage Lottery funding to restore the Windmill.

A grant of £400,000 has been awarded to fund:

 Restoring the interior, so that it is accessible to the public
 a programme of educational activities,
 an audio-visual presentation on the ground floor will show the mechanical parts of the mill in operation.
 There will be a substantial increase in community activities and public access with 50 new volunteers recruited from the surrounding area.

The full press releases: Heritage Lottery Fund and Lambeth Council
Heritage Lottery Fund website www.hlf.org.uk

Scaffolding will go up soon, so get your cameras out and start the before and after photos.

Dannatt, Johnson Architects have been appointed to carry out restoration work on the windmill. Read the Outline Scope of Work here – PDF format 16kb.

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The Ashby Mill was built in 1816 when Brixton Hill was nothing but open fields. It was still a working mill in the early twentieth century but it eventually fell into disuse in 1935 following the demise of Joshua Ashby.

The windmill is situated in a small park, Windmill Gardens, at the west end of Blenheim Gardens, London SW2. Map

Thanks to Owen Llewellyn aka taffytubby for the use of his photo on the new heading. See more of his photos on Flickr.