The following PDF files are of newspaper articles about the Easole Corn Mill which replace the scans of the newspaper articles previously published on the Easole Corn Mill page. They were kindly sent to me by Malcolm Blackwood. 1965 In the early hours of Sunday, 9th May, 1965. Easole M Corn ill was destroyed by […]
Category: Windmills
H.S. Pledge & Sons Ltd., millers & corn merchants of Ashford, Kent-the Nonington years
The 1871 census records a Henry S. Pledge and family as living in Ratling Street, near to Ratling Court. Henry may have started his apprenticeship at the Easole corn mill but in 1871 he was listed as a miller employing two men and as a farmer employing two labourers and a boy. Henry Sturgess Pledge, miller, […]
The lost Holestrete or Holt Street windmill in Nonington
In 1309 John (1), the son of Stephen de Akolte (Acholt) transferred **[see below] to John (2), the son of Thomas de Akholte, and Lucia, his mother, the ownership a windmill [unum molendinum ventifluim] in the parish of Nonington. The mill was recorded as being situated “in the parish of Nonyngton, near Holestrete [Holt Street] on Freydviles […]
The lost Holestrete or Holt Street windmill in Nonington
The windmill appears to have been located just to the north of the site of the old Snowdown Collier pit baths and car park on the brow of the hill on the west side of the road up from Holt Street. The site would have been well served by roads to Ackholt, Holt Street in […]
John Harvey (Nonington) Ltd-some notes by L.E. Fox written in 1974 & 1979
The late Mr. Leonard E. Fox was Company Secretary of John Harvey (Nonington) Ltd. for many years, and the following are copies of some notes he made on the company in 1974 with a revision written in 1979.