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Wimbledon Windmill Museum
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Wimbledon Windmill Museum
Wimbledon Road
Wimbledon Common
London
SW19 5NR
tel.: 02089472825
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Wimbledon Windmill Museum - Permanent Collection, Museum Event
Times: Daily Bank Holiday,Boxing Day Bank Holiday,Christmas Day,Summer Bank Holiday (except Scotland) 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Prices: 2.00
Wimbledon Windmill Museum, Museum Event
Times: 27 Mar - 31 Oct 2010 Sat 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM; Sun 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Prices: 2.00
Wimbledon Windmill Museum
Wimbledon Windmill Museum - SW19The Wimbledon Windmill Museum, is housed inside - funnily enough - a windmill and is towards the north-east corner of the Wimbledon Common. Built in 1817 by Charles March, a Roehampton carpenter, and one of the few remaining examples in England of a hallow post mill.
The windmill museum is accommodated on the two lower floors of the mill and it is also possible to view inside the tower. The windmill museum depicts the story of windmills and windmilling in pictures, models and the machinery and tools of the trade. It also includes relics of other windmills which have now disappeared. There is a video room showing films relating to windmills and milling.
One room is set out as it would have been in the 1870s after the mill stopped working and had been converted into accommodation for six families. When the mill ended its working life in 1864, the building at its base was converted into six cottages.
In 1976 the first floor was opened as museum devoted to the history of windmills and milling. Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the scout movement, lived here in the adjoining Mill House, and in 1908 he wrote part of ’Scouting for Boys’, the handbook of the organisation, at the Mill House.
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