Posted on 23/11/2011
Peter got in touch with us to tell us about his mother Maud, who used to live near Brixton Windmill.
Peter says: "In the early 1900s my mother, Maud Walpole, lived close to the windmill at 8...
Posted on 22/07/2011
I was about to start at Camberwell Art School (1975), and decided to draw the mechanism in the windmill as part of my preparation. There was a little hut next to the mill where you paid your money...
Posted on 02/07/2011
These are excerpts from a manuscript entitled “Thoughts and recollections of a septuagenarian nonentity” written in 1983 by Vivian Steven, who died in 1998. The manuscript was passed on...
Posted on 28/06/2011
I spent my childhood at Brixton Hill and, together with a childhood mate who lived in Blenheim Gardens, used to frequent the old mill and play there. Of course, it was all overgrown and dilapidated...
Posted on 08/06/2011
Derek Rowles contacted the Friends of Windmill Gardens when a photo of Brixton Windmill in a newspaper triggered his memory.
Derek says, “A photograph of Brixton Windmill recently published in...
Posted on 06/06/2011
I’m very pleased to see that the windmill has been restored. I was born in 1922 at 65 Brandon Road, later changed to Barkley Road [now Glanville Road]. I went to Lyham Road School.
Our house...
