v THE HERALD - OUR 30TH YEAR - 1994-2024 v 3rd October 2024 • The HERALD • Page 23 ➢ Emergency roofing call out & repairs ➢ Storm damage ➢ Flat roofs ➢ Tiled roofs ➢ Roof investigations ➢ Roof condition reports ➢ Facsias, Soffits & guttering systems ➢ Insurance works ➢ Asbestos surveys ➢ Planned maintenance ➢ Total building refurbishment ➢ Commercial/dilapidation works ➢ Management & design ➢ All access supplied Emergency Call Out Service Available 023 8073 9259 or 07809 116605 Visit: hampshireroofingservices.co.uk or email us at: admin@hampshireroofingservices.co.uk Waterside Carpet Cleaning PROFESSIONAL CARPET CLEANING! Using Prochem Equipment and Materials • SPOT/STAIN TREATMENT • Fully Insured 023 8066 0878 or 07770 337917 www.watersidecarpetcleaning.com The Fawley Windmill, Part 1 by Robin Somes, Fawley and Blackfield Memories Periodically, the question of Fawley Windmill crops up, as someone nds an old image and wonders where in Fawley it was. Some believe it was on Badminston Common, others claim that an earth mound in Badminston Plantation, on the edge of Floating Island valley, was the site. e problem with both these suggestions is a lack of evidence; anything recent enough to have been photographed, or featured on a postcard, would appear on the Ordnance Survey maps – but nothing of the sort is there. To complicate matters, it has also been known as Hythe Windmill, and Langdown Windmill. e truth, as most people now know, is that it was in Dibden Purlieu – close to Windmill Copse; the crucial point being that, at the time, it was in Fawley Parish. Having established its location, we should look at a little history. Although it’s quite likely that earlier mills had stood on the site, the rst accessible record of it is from 1827, when it was advertised for sale: “A MOST substantial new and particularly well-built and finely finished WINDMILL, working three pair of four-feet Stones, together with good and convenient DWELLING-HOUSE, corn-store and warehouse”. and ware, Brussels, Kidderminster and felt carpets, hearthrugs, mahogany dining and loo tables*, handsome carved back mahogany sideboard with drawers and cellaret, a cottage pianoforte in rosewood case, sofas, couch, easy and other chairs, china, glass, preserves, &c.; also six store pigs, poultry, three cows in calf, brown pony, donkey, five sets of harness, a four-wheel waggon, carts, hen coops, plough, harrows, and half a ton of potatoes”. Later that same year, the windmill and two adjoining cottages were advertised, as part of the Langdown Lodge estate of around 43 acres of land, the whole estate to be let on a repairing lease. Following Mr Sheppard’s departure, the windmill declined; in the next episode we’ll look at its subsequent history. *A folding or tip-top table, intended for playing the card game “Loo”. Fawley Windmill and the adjacent cottage, from a postcard by FGO Stuart One of its functions, according to the press, was as a meeting-point for the New Forest Fox Hounds for their weekly hunts. roughout the 19th century, it was occasionally o ered for rent – o en with extremely luxurious furnishings; in 1860 it was advertised “with Cottage and 7 acres of Land, from Michaelmas; rent, £25 per annum”. In February 1868 there was an auction of household furniture and livestock, which might give some idea of the status of millers in society. Advertised “with instructions from G. Sheppard, Esq., who is leaving the above premises”, it comprised: “… four superior feather beds, bedding, Arabian and iron French bedsteads, spring and wool mattresses, chests of drawers in birch, mahogany and other woods, toilet and dressing tables, washstands Fawley Cinema e Fawley Community Cinema show lms in high de nition Blu-ray and stereo sound on a large screen at Jubilee Hall, Fawley on the first Saturday of the month. eir next o ering is Sweet Caroline (15) on Saturday 5th October at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. A hilarious mockumentary which follows Caroline (Jo Hartley), a competitive giant vegetable grower, as she readies herself for the big annual National Veg Championship. When her prized marrow, named Ricky Hutton, is stolen, Caroline and her fellow growers, conspiracy theorist Paul (Richard Lumsden) and a able Willy (Celyn Jones), are led into a seedy world of crime as they attempt to nd the culprit. Tickets £5 available from Jubilee Hall (Please check opening times). Fawley Community Cinema has been funded by ExxonMobil Fawley.
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