A visitor from Yorkshire , a Mr Brian Hill, came to the mill in April

and took photographs of the mill, church and village and has published them on his website:-

 

Dual event at the mill of the 25 th anniversary of the founding of the Burgh Mill Volunteer Group and the official opening of the new extension tea room opened by the Mayor, Cllr John Clarke and special guest of honour Mrs Gladys Waite, one of Burgh's most senior residents.

 

The day was an enormous success with over two hundred visitors enjoying the entertainment of the Kesteven Morris Group and the Far Weltered Lincs Dialect Society and various charity stalls and a wood turner , Clem Ansell, with his craft items on display.

 

The event concluded in the tea room with folk songs played on the accordion and the Lincolnshire dialect group reciting their anecdotes and our guest of honour Gladys Waite recited from memory in local dialect,

“ A Bit of Binder String” .

Eileen Chantry has kindly sent in the following report on the founding of the Burgh Mill Volunteers's Group 25 years ago:

Burgh Windmill Group was born in 1984 thanks to Catherine Wilson OBE who was then the Keeper of the Museum of Lincolnshire Life in Lincoln

She approached the Burgh History Group with a view to forming a group of volunteers to learn the technique of operating a windmill. (The Mill was and still is owned by Lincolnshire County Council who purchased it in 1964 from Frank Dobson)

Catherine came along to a meeting in the Parish Council room in the March of 1964 and accompanying her was Les Osborne the then Secretary of the Lincolnshire Mills Group which he and Catherine had founded in 1981.

Les, who is now President of the Lincolnshire Mills Group, trained as a Miller at Ellis Mill in Lincoln and he agreed to train the first group of Burgh volunteers. John Clarke was amongst that first group and 25 years later is still operating the mill on a regular basis.

The Burgh Windmill Group was officially formed in May 1984