Image ID: 11981

Green's Windmill, Sneinton, c 1992

Courtesy of Mrs Brenda M Hadley

Nottingham, Sneinton
England

George Green's father purchased land in 1807 and built a windmill to trade in flour milling. The mill was completely gutted by fire in July 1947, caused by a pot of beeswax used in polish manufacture, boiling over on a gas ring. For over 30 years the mill remained derelict. In 1974 Professor Lawrie Challis of Nottingham University along with a group of colleagues formed the George Green Memorial Fund. The mill was restored to its full working condition in 1987 and has a museum at the back of the mill and also a shop selling freshly milled flour to the public. George Green junior used the top room of the old mill as a study where his theories were to prove of such importance to science. Green is reputed to be one of the 19th Century's most brilliant mathematician and theoretical physicist. George Green was buried in the nearbychurch of St Stephen's on 4 June 1841. Sneinton is one of the oldest parts of Nottingham. It has Nottingham's only surviving windmill, the birthplace of the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth, and the home of the internationally famous scientist George Green. It also has remains of cave dwellings and the parish church, St Stephen's. Sneinton was originally called 'Notintone' but by 1194 the present name was recorded and has remained unchanged through the centuries. Formed about 900 AD, until 1877 Sneinton remained a seperate community from the city. It covered a large rural area bounded by the river Trent downstream to Colwick Park, following a line North to the top of Colwick woods, across Sneinton Dale and Carlton Road, turning to run along the line of Gordon Road down to Sneinton market, returning to the river along a course parallel with and to the East of London Road. Sneinton officially became part of the city of Nottingham in 1877.

Date: 1992

Organisation Reference: NCCK000960

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