1929
Mill Pond Farm tower mill built
The tower mill was built around 1929 by Alphonso Neville Vincent of Thelnetham to his own design.
Site overview
Garboldisham Mill Pond Farm tower mill is recorded by Norfolk Mills as a small-output mill built around 1929. The mill was constructed by the millwright Alphonso Neville Vincent of Thelnetham, Suffolk, to his own design. It used two pairs of common sails to work a Woods Plate mill, a form of hammer mill.
The consulted sources do not provide a detailed operator list, final working date, closure process, or later conversion history. The available record is nevertheless distinctive because it identifies both the builder and the unusual machinery type. Its significance in the sourced record is therefore tied to a late wind-powered installation at Mill Pond Farm rather than to a long documented milling chronology.
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History
Garboldisham Mill Pond Farm tower mill is documented by Norfolk Mills as a late and specialised tower mill. The mill was built around 1929 by Alphonso Neville Vincent of Thelnetham, Suffolk, and was constructed to Vincent's own design. Unlike the older Garboldisham tower mill associated with the post mill, the Mill Pond Farm mill is described as having worked a Woods Plate mill, a type of hammer mill.
Power was supplied by two pairs of common sails. Norfolk Mills notes that the output was probably small. The consulted sources do not identify a full ownership sequence, detailed operating accounts, final working date, dismantling history, or later reuse.
They also do not provide a detailed description of the present physical condition beyond the site being recorded as a tower mill at Mill Pond Farm. The sourced history therefore rests on the documented 1929 construction, the named millwright, and the specific machinery arrangement.
Timeline
1929
Woods Plate mill worked by sails
The mill used two pairs of common sails to operate a Woods Plate hammer mill.
Sources and records
Norfolk Mills record: Garboldisham Mill Pond Farm tower mill
Norfolk Mills record: Garboldisham tower mill
Norfolk Mills record: Garboldisham post mill
Norfolk Mills record: Garboldisham tower mill
Norfolk Mills record: Garboldisham post mill