Hon President
John SilmanChairman
Andy Fish
Vice Chairman
David Plunkett
Secretary
Alison Stott
Treasurer
Eleanor Yates
Technical Advisor
John Christmas
Membership Secretary
& Librarian
Mick Edgeworth
Archivist
Tony Yoward
Webmaster
Ashok Vaidya
avaidya
@hampshiremills.org
Newsletter Editor
Ruth Andrews
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This
painting, which
hangs in
Preston Manor, Brighton
shows the
West Mill
of the old Brighthelmstone (later to become
Brighton) being moved on 28 March 1797 to a
new site at Preston two miles away. 86 oxen
were used to pull the sled on which the mill
had been mounted. According to the caption
on the painting, the oxen belonged to the
following gentlemen: W Stanford Esq, Messrs
Hodson, Hamshar, Scrase, Trill, Hall &
Hardwicke. The area where the mill
originally stood was known as Belle Vue
Fields and is now known as Regency Square.
This was
one of the pictures that Peter Hill used to
illustrate his talk about Sussex Mills at
the March HMG meeting. |
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