"Good morning Windmill!"
Patcham Windmill
“This is a photo of Patcham windmill. It’s special to me because I’ve passed it every school day since my son started school, approximately seven years ago. We used to say ‘Good morning, Windmill!’ on the way to school, and ‘Good afternoon, Windmill!’ on the way back.
It was used on my first school’s crest, Patcham Infant’s School, and the district of Withdean grew up beneath it..”
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Further details on this mill and other Sussex mills are on http://www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk
It is also depicted in the badge of Westdene School. The mill at Rottingdean is the logo of the publishers Heinemann. Have any other local mills been depicted in art (or commerce)?
Did you know that Mr. Musgrove left the windmill 15 years ago? I am the current owner and have lived here since Mr Musgrove left. Unfortunately it is not open to the public.
I visited the mill when it was open for cream teas in the 1950s.
Windmills frighten the life out of me!
I have just discovered this website and this windmill is very special to my sense of belonging. I lived opposite when I was growing up in the late 50’s and 60’s. I have very fond memories of this area, particularly playing near the windmill and the downs. I wish I had been able to go inside, I would have been too young in the 50’s.
The picture is of Waterhall Windmill not Patcham Mill. Patcham Windmill was located in what is now Old Mill Close off Overhill Drive. The last Patcham Mill was demolished around 1900. The original Patcham village school, located in the Old London Road, which I attended in 1960-61, was built around 1862 when the Patcham Mill was still operational and Waterhall Mill wasn’t even built.
Used to deliver newspapers there on my morning round 1969-70.
I moved to the old primary in 1956 after moving from the Downs School, (house move).
The other pupils there were all nice kids bar one, but whats a bad penny in a sack of gold!
As with most children we all pretty much agree that the male teachers even then were bullies.
One in particular would slap the naughty ones with both hands simultaneously across the cheeks. We were all mighty glad a year or so later when the school was closed for good and we shifted to the main (northern) block at the Ladies mile road campus. Later we were to have another male teacher at the Junior school who again bullied boys, but in those days we assumed it was a natural thing to maintain discipline.
Now they would be punished for their antics, how times have changed !
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