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Thu, May 28, 2009

Ron
Most certainly Portchester Windmill SU619044 built c1780. Nice picture, if not sold I'd like to buy it for my collection.
Wicor Windmill was at SU608048. Used by the Ivimy family pre1798 to 1837, disused by 1908, demolished c1920. The Windmill pub is near to the site
History of both mills in my Hampshire Notes at the Mills Archive!

Cheers
Ken

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Mon, November 15, 2010

my 4 x great grandparents worked at what i now beleive is wicor mill around 1841
they also worked at the bursledon mill in 1851
i have been trying to find a mill by the name Wrior mill in a south street porchester.
i now beleive that this is what you are calling wicor mill (that looks more like what is written on the 1841 census) would be near to wicor farm
they seem to have been journeymen millers who prob went where the work was.
Brian

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Tue, December 07, 2010

The seaward end of Wicor Mill Lane had a margarine factory during WW2 when my aunt worked there. It must have been close to the sea itself, because the products occasionally floated out. Whether or not this factory was built on the site of 'Wicor Mill' I cannot say.

Incidentally does anyone remember the old wartime Wicor School I attended which was at the extreme seaward end of Cranleigh Road? Mr Hargreaves was headmaster and one of the mistresses was Miss Hack.
All records of this prefabricated school, with its eight classes in two rows of four and dining room, seem to have been expunged.

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