Tunstall’s windmill stood in a field that became known as Millfield. The field overlooked Roundwell Street and America Street. A track that is now Pierce Street led from America Street to the mill.
The only houses near the mill were three one-storey working men’s cottages.
At one time, a man and his wife lived at the mill. There was a disused mine shaft full of water nearby. One evening the couple had an argument. The wife walked out and did not return. The next morning, her body was found in the mine shaft. She had committed suicide.
When the mill closed, Tunstall’s Drum and Fife band used it as a practice room.
The mill was demolished in the mid-1850s.
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