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This mill was once owned by the father of George Green, the famous Nottingham mathematician.
It was in c 1807 and was later added to with a fine house for the Green family. 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 died in Sneinton in 1841 and is buried in the churchyard of St Stephen's, close by his windmill. The mill was abandoned in 1947 after a fire broke out and destroyed sections of the structure.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Nottingham University raised funds to have the mill restored and a science centre was built around the mill yard to tell the story of George Green and his mill.
Thomas William Hammond 1854-1935. Born in Philadelphia of Nottingham emigres, and orphaned at the age of four, he came to England with his younger sister Maria and lived for a short while with his grandparents in Mount Street. In 1868 age 14 he enrolled in the Government School of Art. On the 1871 census he is described as a lace curtain designer, and in 1872 he was awarded the 'Queen's Prize for a Design of a Lace Curtain'. Other prizes followed and in 1877 he was again awarded the Queen's Prize, this time for the design for a damask table Cloth.
Hammond was an indefatigable worker, and soon began to use his skills as a draftsman to record aspects of the changing town. He began showing his work at local venues in 1882 and in 1890 exhibited for the first time at the Royal academy. His real hobby was black and white sketching in charcoal. He drew about 350 pictures all together mainly scenes of a Nottingham he knew but which has largely passed away today.
Extracted from 'The Changing Face of Tom Hammond's Nottingham' by John Beckett which is the introductory essay in 'A City in the Making Drawings of Tom Hammond'.