EAW048930 ENGLAND (1953). Bocking Windmill and Church Street, Bocking Churchstreet, from the north-east, 1953

Courtaulds Mill Bocking

St Mary's Church Hall

St Mary's Church Bocking

The Cricket Pavillion

Toilet Block

Bocking Church Street Primary School

Courtaulds Cottages

Bocking Village Hall

The Bull

A post mill, with what appears to be a two-storey roundhouse. The 'tailpole', projecting from the steps and used to 'wind' the sails, seems almost too long to turn into the fence. This is a somewhat larger mill than the preserved post mill at Mountnessing in Essex. While being the same general shape as Bocking (although it has a twelve sided 'roundhouse') it is rather closer in size to the Airfix/Dapol plastic windmill kit known to many railway modellers, that captures the style of these mills so well. The white area on the conical roof of the roundhouse might suggest the mill has not been moved for sometime... or has it just been painted by a rather careless painter. Nice productive allotments/vegetable garden behind. Potatoes are earth up already and the winter greens are still providing sustenance.