IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/ASB
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ASHBY, JOSHUA AND SONS {MILLERS AND CORN MERCHANTS}
Date(s): 1905-1906
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.05 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Joshua Ashby and Sons | millers and corn merchants
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Messrs Joshua Ashby and Sons were millers and corn merchants at Brixton Mill, Blenheim Gardens (formerly Cornwall Road), Stockwell, Lambeth.
"In 1817 John Ashby of Brixton Hill, miller, obtained a lease for 99 years from Hall of two acres of land (plot 84) on the south side of a new road to be called Cornwall Road (now Blenheim Gardens), together with a "Brick corn Mill" and other erections. The windmill was erected in 1816-17 at the south-west corner of the two acres. Save for a brief period in 1862-4, when the sails of the mill were removed and new machinery installed, the windmill was in continuous use by the firm of Ashby until 1934. It has been listed as a building of architectural and historic interest under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and in 1955 the London County Council purchased the site for an open space. The mill is built of stock brick, painted over, and is surmounted by a gallery and a wooden boat-shaped cap; the gallery was added later. The ancillary buildings are of brick-nogged and weather boarded construction with pantile roofs."
From: 'Stockwell: Brixton Hill area', Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area (1956), pp. 100-105.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Joshua Ashby and Sons, millers and corn merchants, comprising cash book of "H. Neave, Thornton Heath Round" for Ashby's, providing details of daily deliveries of flour, yeast, wheat, barley, oats, bran, pease etc., to customers in S. Norwood and Croydon districts, and money received, Mar 1905 - Jan 1906.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One volume
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Unfit for production - please consult a member of staff for more information.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated to the Archive in 1966 (AC/66/066)
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
See Brixton Windmill, GLC Publications 123, 1967 (LMA Library Reference: P45.614 GLC)
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009