Latest News from Green's Mill
July 2006
Visiting
Green's Mill
Last year Green's Mill welcomed nearly 30,000 visitors, a pleasing 14% up on the previous year. Since we opened in 1985 over 855,000 people have enjoyed the opportunity to look around a working windmill, buy some award-winning flour, take part in an activity, get their hands on some fun science, admire the views over the Trent valley and enjoy a cup of coffee in the millyard. If you haven't been up to Green's Mill yet do come and see what we have to offer.
The Windmill
Thompsons, Millwrights - the people who restored our windmill to working order back in the 1980s - are back
on site doing some essential maintenance. They have repainted the sails and replace some of the canvas shutters.
These had been up there, exposed to all weathers for 20 years, and were wearing out.
Thompsons are now giving the cap of the mill some TLC to fill in cracks and they are about to repaint it, too.
So, soon Green's Mill will be back to its former glory with gleaming paintwork.
Now for the window frames...
Organic Food Awards 2006
We have submitted two types of our organic flour to the Soil Association Organic Food Awards this year. Judging is taking place now and we are keeping our fingers crossed for another good result. In previous years we have won several first and second prizes. Can we do it again?
Green's Gardens - the park by the Mill
In the 19th century George green, miller here, owned a fair bit of the property around the mill. Much of it was
let to people living in the town as allotments or gardens. When the mill was restored in the 1980s a public park
was created - still called Green's Gardens. As we are hoping to get funding for improvements to the park we having
a historical landscape survey carried out. This will tell us what evidence for past use of the site remains and
what we should try and keep and enhance when we start work on the improvements. A Sundial for Green's Mill
A splendid sundial has been installed in the millyard in memory of Mary Cannell who was the secretary of the
George Green Memorial Trust until her death in 2000. Mary devoted much of her time and energy in her 'retirement'
to researching the life of George Green, the mathematical miller, and to promoting his reputation. She travelled
extensively researching and lecturing on Green - including Australia, Canada and the USA - and she wrote definitive
biographies of him. The sundial, a representation of our relationship to the sun in miniature would have intrigued
George Green and is a fitting memorial to someone who did so much to resurrect his reputation and give him his true
place amongst the great scientists. 
One result of the investigations was to get copies of some photos of Green's Mill from Gilbert Clarke - local
resident and supporter of the windmill and its restoration. Gilbert took some fine photos of the mill and park
in the 1970s and these have proved very useful in showing us features of the area around the mill that are much
more difficult to spot now, such as the lines of hedgerows and buildings no longer standing. So, still we add pieces
to the jigsaw that is the history of the mill. Do you have any photos of it?
E-mail: greensmill@nottinghamcity.gov.uk