Survey of Ancient Buildings

Stevington Windmill

photo: Nicola Avery

About this volume

This book contains photographs of all the windmills in the county for which any illustration was known at the date of publication. There are photographs of 36 windmills, or their remains, in twenty-seven Bedfordshire towns and villages, taken between 1858 and 1931, mainly by J. Steele Elliott.

About the author(s)

J. Steele Elliott (5)

Jannion Steele Elliott (1871-1942) attended Bedford Modern School and later set up in business in Dudley. His main interest was ornithology. His collection of Bedfordshire birds, mammals, nests and eggs was given to Bedford Modern School and is now in The Higgins, Bedford (opens in a new window) where some items from the collection are on display. He wrote several books on ornithology and contributed the chapter on birds to the zoology section of VCH Bedford volume 1.