Description: This mill was once owned by the father of George Green, the famous Nottingham mathematician. The mill was built in c 1807 and stood 16 metres high. It was one of the first two brick mills in the county of Nottinghamshire. Later a fine house for the Green family was added next to the mill. The mill passed into the ownership of George Green on his father's death in 1928, but in 1933 George let the mill out and went to study at Caius College in Cambridge. He went on to become a Fellow of his college and write scientific papers on such subjects as wave motion, the behaviour of light, crystal structure and the elasticity of materials. George Green's died in Sneinton in 1841 and is buried in the churchyard of St Stephen's, close by his windmill. The Nottingham Review published a short obituary on 11 June (though they appear to know little of his life and even less of the importance of his work): '.. we believe he was the son of a miller, residing near Nottingham, but having a taste for study, he applied his gifted mind to the science of mathematics, in which he made a rapid progress. In Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, Bart., he found a warm friend, and to his influence he owed much, while studying at Cambridge. Had his life been prolonged, he might have stood eminently high as a mathematician.' The mill was abandoned in 1947 after a fire broke out and destroyed sections of the structure. In the 1970's and 1980's, Nottingham University raised funds to have the mill restored (the result is show in this photograph) and a science centre was built around the mill yard to tell the story of George Green and his mill.