Description: The may be Johnson's mill. 'Johnson's Mill' was bought by Jack Johnson in Gotham and moved to the Forest, by arrangement with the town council. He lived in a house on the south side of the road, west of the top of Waverley Street. (He was famous for taking his horse to sell at Mansfield Fair, and then buying it back when drunk for more than he sold it for. The horse had been clipped and smartened up so that he did not recognise it.) The windmills that stood on the Forest ridge were nearly all post-mills, of wooden construction, comparatively easy to dismantle and cart to another site. Some were brought in from elsewhere, some were moved away, so the numbers could change over time. When the Forest ridge was made part of the allotted recreation ground by the 1845 Inclosure Act, all the windmills had to be removed, except the one only built of brick which was on the other side of the road on private land. The last mill burnt down on 2 December 1858. The artist was Thomas Cooper Moore (1827 - 1901), who was a nineteenth century painter, watercolourist and pen and ink artist who first trained as an architect before dedicating himself to art. He was mainly self taught in this field but later started the first sketching class in Nottingham and was a founder of the Nottingham Society of artists. Most of Moore's landscapes were produced in or around the Nottingham area. During this time and later in the nineteenth century his art was exhibited in Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham and London. T. C. Moore was also the father and teacher of Claude T. S. Moore (1853-1901), who became very well known for his paintings and watercolours of the Thames and other river views. A number of Thomas Cooper Moore's drawings and watercolours are housed in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There are many more of his sketches to be seen on this web-site.