A hand-tinted postcard shows a large multi-story mill building with a tall brick chimney, flanked by figures on a dirt path.

Mill, St Ives (postcard postmarked 1905)

Corn Mills, Enderby’s Mill, St Ives

History of Mill, St Ives

Detail from an 1886 Ordnance Survey map showing the Great Ouse river, nearby streets, a hotel, and the St Ives Corn Mills.

Mill, St Ives OS map 1886

High-angle view of a river flowing past stone buildings and greenery, with distant structures and a tall chimney visible.

St Ives corn mill: taken from the roof of All Saints’ Church, St. Ives, and showing the old bridge chapel, and Enderby’s printing mill in the distance, pre-1933. (Littleport Society LS-102) https://www.littleportsociety.org.uk/catalogue/index.php/Detail/objects/1982

Then and Now (David Gent) – St Ives Mill

Originally operated as a steam powered corn mill by Potto Brown, the mill originated in 1854. The main building became Enderby’s Printing Mill in 1901. In the 1970s it became the base for Clive Sinclair’s electronics business. Today the site has been redeveloped and is now residential, but the main old mill building still stands. First picture is from a postcard postmarked 1905 and appears to show workers leaving the mill.

A group of men walks down a path past a large multi-story brick mill, a tall chimney, and a smaller house behind a fence.

Enderby’s Mill, St Ives c1901 (Hunts Archives)

A road winds between mature trees and modern residential buildings with cars parked along the side on a bright autumn day.

Mill St Ives, (photo DG 2022)

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