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Sussex Industrial History: Journal of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society. Sussex Windmills and their Restoration - a 1970s perspective, by R. C. Pinney, published 1999 (issue no. 29, Sussex Industrial History, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14071] & The Keep [LIB/506527] & West Sussex Libraries Download PDF
Introduction by Don Cox:After giving a talk to a local Christian Fellowship Group on The Windmills of Sussex, I was approached by a person who introduced himself to me as Ron Pinney. He said that he had written a book about windmills and was I interested. Thus I came to read this book in its typed version and realised that although he had been unable to have the work published in 1975 when it was completed, it deserved to be published even at this late date. Following consultation with Peter Hill and Brian Austen, it was agreed that the work should be published as an edition of Sussex Industrial History.
The book contains much of interest to the lover of windmills and in particular to members of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society and Sussex Mills Group. It is appreciated that some of the information has been superseded, and that in the years since it was written other research has increased our knowledge of windmills. However it is thought that this work shows the state of things in the 1970s and as the author saw, it at the time. It also shows the restoration and the methods used at that time. Ron Pinney's text has been presented unchanged and updated in the references provided at the end.
Perhaps someone might be inspired to write a companion volume concerning the methods of restoration used and the state of the windmills of Sussex today.
The book contains much of interest to the lover of windmills and in particular to members of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society and Sussex Mills Group. It is appreciated that some of the information has been superseded, and that in the years since it was written other research has increased our knowledge of windmills. However it is thought that this work shows the state of things in the 1970s and as the author saw, it at the time. It also shows the restoration and the methods used at that time. Ron Pinney's text has been presented unchanged and updated in the references provided at the end.
Perhaps someone might be inspired to write a companion volume concerning the methods of restoration used and the state of the windmills of Sussex today.