Southam. Windmill

In 1900 Southam Windmill was still a working mill. | Warwickshire County Record Office reference PH(N) 600/162/2
Southam Windmill as photographed in about 1900
Warwickshire County Record Office reference PH(N) 600/162/2

The brick mill with batter was built about 1807, and was rebuilt after a fire in 1849. It had six storeys, four patent sails, and two sets of stones on the third floor and machinery. The sails were removed in 1923 and it worked by steam, and later by oil until work ceased in around 1948. In 1955 parts of it were dismantled and truncated, and it was finally demolished in the early 1980s.