Wind Mill Gallery

Windmill Theatre

The Windmill Theatre on the corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, and the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London. The Lyric is presenting Edward My Son with Peggy Ashcroft and Robert Morley. The Windmill is presenting a Vivian Van Damm production, in its 16th year, called Revudeville. Date: 1947

© Mary Evans / Photo Union Collection

Daily lives in London during the Blitz

Four images relating to air-raided London in October 1940. Top left shows cast members at the Windmill Theatre which was the only theatre to remain open; the cast slept in the theatre on mattresses laid out on the floor. Top rights shows a communal kitchen in Lambeth run by the Women's Voluntary Services. Bottom right shows a lady carrying an easy chair or bed shelter model and bottom left, a girl lying on one of these portable beds

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Windmill and water mill, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

The Windmill (known as Archer's Mill) at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. It was a post mill working two pairs of stones, purchased together with the nearby water mill by John Archer in the 19th century. The two vertical sails were the common cloth-covered type being furled from the ground, while the two horizontal sails were of a patent type, their shutters being controlled from inside the mill according to wind strength. Both mills were demolished in 1921.
1902

© Mary Evans Picture Library/The Pete Frost Collection