Description: This view shows the cap and main drive wheels and vertical shaft (all made of wood) on the upper floor of the Mill. Built in 1807 by George Green, a local grain merchant. His son, also George Green, was a mathematician and used one of the floors of the mill as a study. The mill worked until the 1860's. The remains were used as a shoe polish factory early 20th century but were burnt out in 1947. It remained derelict until the shell was purchased by the George Green Memorial Society in 1974 and given to the city. The Mill was gradually restored and the first flour to be ground there since the 1860's was produced in December 1986. Officially opened in July 1985 with a Science Centre at the side dedicated to George Green the mathematician's work. George Green the mathematician was born in 1793. His first publication 'An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism' came out in 1828. He left Nottingham in 1833 to become a student at Cambridge University. He died in 1841, his work largely unrecognised. (information from Nottingham City Council Planning Dept. 'Buildings of Sneinton', 1989, and 'Windmills of Nottinghamshire' by Tony Shaw.)