West Street mill

The windmill in West Street, built in 1839 for local landowner Richard Gutteridge. The sails were removed in 1908. The mill became the headquarters of the Dunstable Sea Cadets in 1948. Admiral Sir Lionel Preston, who moved to live in Dunstable (in High Street North) in 1935, was instrumental in forming a sea cadets unit as part of the Pioneer Boys Club in 1942, and when the cadets eventually gained their own building it was named Training Ship Lionel Preston in his honour. Sir Lionel died in 1971.