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Messrs Joshua Ashby and Sons were millers and corn merchants at Brixton Mill, Blenheim Gardens (formerly Cornwall Road), Stockwell, Lambeth.
"In 1817 John Ashby of Brixton Hill, miller, obtained a lease for 99 years from Hall of two acres of land (plot 84) on the south side of a new road to be called Cornwall Road (now Blenheim Gardens), together with a "Brick corn Mill" and other erections. The windmill was erected in 1816-17 at the south-west corner of the two acres. Save for a brief period in 1862-4, when the sails of the mill were removed and new machinery installed, the windmill was in continuous use by the firm of Ashby until 1934. It has been listed as a building of architectural and historic interest under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and in 1955 the London County Council purchased the site for an open space. The mill is built of stock brick, painted over, and is surmounted by a gallery and a wooden boat-shaped cap; the gallery was added later. The ancillary buildings are of brick-nogged and weather boarded construction with pantile roofs."
From: 'Stockwell: Brixton Hill area', Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area (1956), pp. 100-105.
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GB 0074 B/ASB 1905-1906 Collection 0.05 linear metres Joshua Ashby and Sons , millers and corn merchants
Messrs Joshua Ashby and Sons were millers and corn merchants at Brixton Mill, Blenheim Gardens (formerly Cornwall Road), Stockwell, Lambeth.
"In 1817 John Ashby of Brixton Hill, miller, obtained a lease for 99 years from Hall of two acres of land (plot 84) on the south side of a new road to be called Cornwall Road (now Blenheim Gardens), together with a "Brick corn Mill" and other erections. The windmill was erected in 1816-17 at the south-west corner of the two acres. Save for a brief period in 1862-4, when the sails of the mill were removed and new machinery installed, the windmill was in continuous use by the firm of Ashby until 1934. It has been listed as a building of architectural and historic interest under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and in 1955 the London County Council purchased the site for an open space. The mill is built of stock brick, painted over, and is surmounted by a gallery and a wooden boat-shaped cap; the gallery was added later. The ancillary buildings are of brick-nogged and weather boarded construction with pantile roofs."
From: 'Stockwell: Brixton Hill area', Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area (1956), pp. 100-105.
Donated to the Archive in 1966 (AC/66/066)
Records of Joshua Ashby and Sons, millers and corn merchants, comprising cash book of "H. Neave, Thornton Heath Round" for Ashby's, providing details of daily deliveries of flour, yeast, wheat, barley, oats, bran, pease etc., to customers in S. Norwood and Croydon districts, and money received, Mar 1905 - Jan 1906.
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
See Brixton Windmill, GLC Publications 123, 1967 (LMA Library Reference: P45.614 GLC)
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Donated to the Archive in 1966 (AC/66/066)
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Records of Joshua Ashby and Sons, millers and corn merchants, comprising cash book of "H. Neave, Thornton Heath Round" for Ashby's, providing details of daily deliveries of flour, yeast, wheat, barley, oats, bran, pease etc., to customers in S. Norwood and Croydon districts, and money received, Mar 1905 - Jan 1906.
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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