Windmill Hotel, Werrington

Description:A postcard view of the Windmill Hotel with an Ind Coope & Allsopp Brewery lorry parked in front of the building. On the right the Inn sign clearly advertises it as the Windmill Inn, which still stands (2023) on the A52, Ash Bank Road, a short distance from Werrington windmill.

The original Windmill Inn stood much closer to the windmill which is thought to have been built around 1730. The Inn began life as the home of the resident miller at the windmill. In 1851 a Mr Greatbach was listed in White's Directory as being both miller and innkeeper. The miller in 1880 was William Forister, who took over the public house and turned it into one of the most popular hostelries in the area. In later years the Inn was demolished and a new Windmill Inn was built nearby on the junction of Johnstone Avenue and Ash Bank Road.

The postcard was written in Bucknall, franked at 1.45pm on 19 September 1944 in Stoke-on-Trent and sent to an address in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent. There is an additional franking mark stating: “POST EARLY IN THE DAY”.