The Old Windmill and North Scale Farm, Walney Island - c.1940

  • Description

    Looking north a ruined and overgrown wall leads towards the derelict lower section of a circular stone windmill. To the right of this are the buildings of North Scale Farm. Black Combe in the distance to the left and the Lake district mountains beyond the farm. Mill stone laying on the ground to the right of the windmill. The windmill and farm were demolished c1940 to allow the airfield to be built....Image from the Sankey Family Photograph Collection (c/o Cumbria Archives), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Ref. A472A, BDB 86/1/3269. Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
  • Owner

    Sankey Family Photography Collection (Cumbria Archives)
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=1528
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 2 months, 1 week ago
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    Picture Taken: Unknown
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