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Sharnbrook tower mill was erected in 1880 on the site of an earlier mill. Unfortunately the era of the windmill was coming to an end and in 1890 the windmill ceased working with the sails taken down in 1920.

During the early 1970s the mill was converted into an observation tower by Clement Howard managing director of C.A.E.C Howard a long established Bedford engineering firm.

Sources

• Newspaper Cuttings Collection, Local Studies Library, Bedford Central Library

Sharnbrook Windmill, by Bedfordshire Libraries, 2012

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