Guide Notes

Appendix 2 - HIGH SALVINGTON MILL GUIDE’S NOTES

A. Safety First!

1. Please mind your head and your footing as you move around the mill. There are low ceilings and doors and uneven floors.
2. Please take care on the steps and only use the right hand set of the main steps with the wire fence. The step controller can assist on the main steps on request.
3. Please be aware that this is a working windmill that does contain flour.
4. In the unlikely event of having to evacuate the mill please follow instructions promptly but calmly. There is only one exit.

B. Glynde Wind Pump

1. Remains of the post and some machinery were recovered from a site close to the railway at Glynde.
2. In the mid- to late- 19^th Century the pump was used to supply water to steam engines which drove an aerial ropeway for a quarry.
3. The post is hollow, so that a single-throw crankshaft gear can operate the pump.
4. Long boarded sweeps turn the windshaft to operate the gear.
5. Acquired from Lord Hampden by Andrew Norman in 1988 (initial restoration).
6. Acquired by HSMT in late 2006.
7. Windshaft realigned and Buck proportioned to correspond with 1929 photographs.

C. Background

1. This mill 1750, previous mill on map of 1724, and a new mill in church records, miller fined, 1615
2. Possibly oldest mill in West Sussex.
3. Last mill out of 9 in Worthing area
4. Stopped working commercially in 1897, animal feed ‘til 1905
5. 1959 Worthing council bought mill, £2,250
6. 1960 - fixed by millwrights
7. 1975 - Worthing council mill safe
8. 1976 - sail blew off, mill structurally unsafe
9. In 1953 WSCC keen to preserve H.S, Halnaker, Shipley & West Ashling Mill Friends of H.S. mill decide on full restoration, as today

D. The Trestle & Roundhouse

1. Post mill, held up by post! Original, single tree. 21.5’, 6.6 m
2. Initially open trestle. What is round house for?
3. Protects trestle. 19th Century round house built when oak trestle replaced with pine
4. Remember concrete café? - pictures
5. Quarter bars hold up mill, take weight. Post not on floor.
6. Wedges hold post still. Storm 1987, horn broke off.

E. Spout Floor

1. Miller normally works
2. Spouts are here. Bring flour from above. See stones
3. Top of post crown tree (old one outside)
4. Crown tree 2 tons of Oak, 1982, £1200
5. Tentering gear – alters gap between stones (scissor action)
6. Rope - unusual lifts stones ½ ton
7. Governors automatic adjustment
8. 1 Trap door in floor, 3 in room, where are the others?
9. Mill hoists grain up. 2 in mill unusual.

F. Stone Floor

(please remember to replace lid over stone)

1. 2 pairs stones
2. Wooden wind shaft, single oak tree, unusual, drives both stones
3. Front, whole, Derbyshire peak. Rough grinding
4. Back, pieces French quartz (Buhrstone). Fine grinding
5. Stones like scissors, dressing = sharpening
6. Engage quant to brake wheel. 10 rpm becomes 90rpm
7. Grain fed from top, bin floor above (Source Bartholomews)
8. Leather strap alerts miller = fire
9. Brake wheel, replaced – 8 years – didn’t fit. (136 teeth) (Rim = Elm, Clasp Arms = Oak, Teeth = Apple)
10. Mill must not with turn brake on = fire e.g. Jill
11. Tail wheel – original, rare compass design
12. Wire machine and Sack hoist pulleys above

G. Sails or Sweeps

1. Fixed end of windshaft, by iron canister
2. Whips bolted onto stocks
3. Diameter 58’. 18m. 3 tons balanced for fitting
4. “Common” canvas sails like boat sails
5. “Spring Shutter” = regulates self (late C18, early C19)
6. 10 rpm, 40 “tips” per min.
7. Winding the mill – face wind
8. Lift stairs (anchor of mill) – difficult,
9. Push mill – easy (swivels on post)
10. Granary from East Grinstead, store grain.
11. Vermin-proof mushrooms – Staddle Stones

H. Worthing Mills

1. Broadwater
2. High Salvington (Durrington)
3. Navarino (Smock + Tower)
4. Bridge (Rustington, Post)
5. Sea Field (Rustington, Post)
6. Heene (33-37 Mill Road)
7. Teville Mill, Cross Street Mill (Teville Common, 1810)

I. Open Windmills in Sussex

Post
High Salvington (<1750, site since 1615)
Jill (Clayton)
Lowfield Heath (mid C18) (in Surrey on Sussex border)
Nutley (open trestle, C16, site since 1830)
Oldland (1783)
Windmill Hill (1815)
Glynde Water Pump
Smock	Tower
Chailey (1830, moved 1864)	Barnham (1829)
Rottingdean (1802)	Halnaker (1750)
Shipley (1879)	Jack (Clayton)*
West Blatchington (1820)	Polegate
	Stone Cross (1876)
*Not open to the public Not currently working but being restored

J. Open Watermills in Sussex

1. Park Mill, Batemans
2. Burton Watermill (c 1784)
3. Coultershaw Beam Pump (1782)
4. Ifield Watermill (1817, site since 1684)
5. Lurgashall Watermill (C17, now at Weald & Downland)
6. Michelham Priory Watermill (1896)