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Standing in the heart of Norfolk's undulating fields, Bircham Windmill now looks as it did over 100 years ago. At that time over 300 mills ground corn for horse & cattle feed and bread-making in Norfolk.
Today, very few windmills are left, and Bircham Mill is considered one of the best still remaining: it is the only windmill in working order in this area open to the public.
Regno Unito, Norfolk, Great Bircham, Estate 2014
Il Great Bircham Windmill è un mulino a torre che si trova a Great Bircham, Norfolk, Inghilterra. Fu costruito nel 1846 cessò di lavorare nel 1922 Il restauro del mulino ha avuto inizio nel 1977. Situato nel cuore del Norfolk tra i suoi campi ondulati, il mulino a vento di Bircham appare adesso come appariva cica 100 anni fa. A quel tempo oltre 300 mulini macinavano mais per cavalli e bovini nel Norfolk. Oggi, solo pochi mulini a vento sono sopravvissuti, e quello di Bircham è considerato uno dei migliori esemplari.
Great Bircham Windmill is a tower mill in Great Bircham, Norfolk, England. It was built in 1846 and it had ceased working by 1922. The restoration of the mill began in 1977. Standing in the heart of Norfolk's undulating fields, Bircham Windmill now looks as it did over 100 years ago. At that time over 300 mills ground corn for horse & cattle feed and bread-making in Norfolk. Today, very few windmills are left, and Bircham Mill is considered one of the best still remaining.
TD248 was built at Vickers Armstrong (Castle Bromwich) and delivered to 6 MU (Maintenance Unit) at Brize Norton on May 16 where she was prepared for service with 695 Squadron based at Bircham Newton in Norfolk with the codes 8Q-T. The Squadron relocated to Horsham St Faith (Norwich) in August 1945.
The aircraft was withdrawn from service on 31 December 1947 when an inspection was carried out by 54 MU based at Cambridge following unrecorded and substantial damage, it was eventually returned to service coded 4M-E with 695 Squadron on May 13, 1948.
Standing in the heart of Norfolk's undulating fields, Bircham Windmill now looks as it did over 100 years ago. At that time over 300 mills ground corn for horse & cattle feed and bread-making in Norfolk.
Today, very few windmills are left, and Bircham Mill is considered one of the best still remaining: it is the only windmill in working order in this area open to the public.
Visitors can climb the five floors up to the fan stage and, when possible, on windy days, visitors can also see the sails and the milling machinery turning.
Do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission..
Keep your hands off!!
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At Bircham Windmill, Norfolk, once I got my camera out, this sheep came over to see what I was doing!
One of the 'true' windmills in Norfolk, used for milling wheat in its day. Now a holiday complex. Difficult to get a clean shot, due to trampolines etc front and back. One of the lesser populated areas of Norfolk. In the sticks, as the local saying goes.
South of Grainger there was a roughly ten mile straight-away to Beiseker, I guess to compensate for all the curves in Grainger. Despite being straight, it was far from boring as the open fields and changes in elevation led to some interesting views. The notoriously tall grass wasn't nearly as interesting though and, despite my best attempts to keep the grass out of the way, a few blades managed to make their way into the shot and cover the locomotive itself.
CN 315 is almost finished the climb out of the valley between Swalwell and Bircham and will soon pick up speed as the terrain becomes a little flatter for the final push into Calgary. January 26, 2020.
Standing in the heart of Norfolk's undulating fields, Bircham Windmill now looks as it did over 100 years ago. At that time over 300 mills ground corn for horse & cattle feed and bread-making in Norfolk.
Today, very few windmills are left, and Bircham Mill is considered one of the best still remaining: it is the only windmill in working order in this area open to the public.
Visitors can climb the five floors up to the fan stage and, when possible, on windy days, visitors can also see the sails and the milling machinery turning.
Do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission..
Keep your hands off!!
© All rights reserved.
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The five-storey tower mill at Great Bircham in North Norfolk dates from 1846, though there was an earlier post mill on the site that was demolished to make way for it. The new mill worked for at least 70 years, but had ceased working by 1922. It has since had several owners, including the late Queen. According to Wikipedia the Grade II-listed mill was purchased by Mr Roger Wagg from the Queen in 1976, and a major restoration commenced in 1977. Together with its adjacent visitor facilities it is now open to the public from April until the end of September.
For more details please see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bircham_Windmill.
Another wide angle take on this scene that includes both a present day and ghost foaming component.
New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) has four six motor units up fronteading a big train as they make a few back and forth moves here south of Barretts to set off cars. This is about MP 68.5 on NECR's Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont Railway mainline.
They are passing beneath a power line clearing built along the abandoned right of way of the "Greatest Railroad that Never Ran". Chartered in 1910 and completed in 1913, the 12 mile line was built to connect the Boston and Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch to the New Haven mainline at Springfield. It was a heavy duty modern 'super railroad ' for its time, yet the only trains to ever run over it were two inspection trains before it was sold for scrap in 1921. The Hampden Railroad built a 65 ft high and 400 ft long bridge here over the Swift River valley and the CV and if it still existed 611 would be beneath it right now.
Yet, as impressive as this bridge must have been it was dwarfed by an 85 ft high and nearly 1100 ft long one at Bircham Bend over the Chicopee River near Springfield!
It was a superbly engineered super railroad built at the wrong time and for reasons that were made irrelevant by the politics of the day. These crumbling concrete piers are ghostly reminders of a railroad that almost was....
There's little to be found online about the railroad but this link offers a bit more if your interest is piqued:
wikimapia.org/3990014/The-location-where-The-longest-brid...
But if you really wish to learn purchase Phillip Johnson's book published in 2014:
Belchertown, Massachusetts
Friday October 14, 2022
CN 442 has found a sun spot as it emerges from the curved and hilly section of the Three Hills Subdivision and is now working towards Beiseker from Bircham.
Standing in the heart of Norfolk's undulating fields, Bircham Windmill now looks as it did over 100 years ago. At that time over 300 mills ground corn for horse & cattle feed and bread-making in Norfolk.
Today, very few windmills are left, and Bircham Mill is considered one of the best still remaining: it is the only windmill in working order in this area open to the public.
Visitors can climb the five floors up to the fan stage and, when possible, on windy days, visitors can also see the sails and the milling machinery turning.
Do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission..
Keep your hands off!!
© All rights reserved.
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Vintage farm equipment frames a pair of handsomely matched Canadian National EMD SD75Is — both wearing their nearly 30-year-old paint remarkably well — as they hustle Edmonton to Calgary train no. 442 through the countryside near Bircham, Alberta.
442s train is seen in its entirety as it heads up the hogback at mile 86 Three Hills Sub. IC 2463 pops nicely in the baron spring landscape, it had about a month left when I took this photo.
A pair of CN 8000 series SD70M-2s lead manifest train A442 south along the straightaway between Bircham and Bieseker.
A pair of locomotives make their way along the many curves of the Three Hills subdivision with a manifest train in tow.
One thing about the Three Hills is the weather is anything but predictable. Having followed Q115 under cloudy skies since Mirror, I stumbled upon a intense snow squall between Swalwell and Bircham. This is one of the more extreme weather conditions I've attempted to shot a train in, with blizzard like conditions existing. I was amazed the strong didn't knock over any containers.
And to think, the forecast had called for sunny skies and +3C temperatures....
A field of flowering canola lines the tracks near Bircham, as CN train 442 makes it's way through one of the numerous curves in the area.
The soft light of an early morning sunset lights up CN train Z115, as it passes through the small hamlet of Bircham.
A single ET44AC guides an intermodal train through the many curves found on CN's Three Hills subdivision.
Standing in the heart of Norfolk's undulating fields, Bircham Windmill now looks as it did over 100 years ago. At that time over 300 mills ground corn for horse & cattle feed and bread-making in Norfolk.
Today, very few windmills are left, and Bircham Mill is considered one of the best still remaining: it is the only windmill in working order in this area open to the public.
Visitors can climb the five floors up to the fan stage and, when possible, on windy days, visitors can also see the sails and the milling machinery turning.
Do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission..
Keep your hands off!!
© All rights reserved.
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Standing in the heart of Norfolk's undulating fields, Bircham Windmill now looks as it did over 100 years ago. At that time over 300 mills ground corn for horse & cattle feed and bread-making in Norfolk.
Today, very few windmills are left, and Bircham Mill is considered one of the best still remaining: it is the only windmill in working order in this area open to the public.
Visitors can climb the five floors up to the fan stage and, when possible, on windy days, visitors can also see the sails and the milling machinery turning.
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An SD75i and a rent-a-wreck Dash-8 lead their train through the numerous curves between Grainger and Bircham.
New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) has four six motor units up fronteading a big train as they make a few back and forth moves here south of Barretts to set off cars. This is about MP 68.5 on NECR's Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont Railway mainline.
They are passing beneath a power line clearing built along the abandoned right of way of the "Greatest Railroad that Never Ran". Chartered in 1910 and completed in 1913, the 12 mile line was built to connect the Boston and Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch to the New Haven mainline at Springfield. It was a heavy duty modern 'super railroad ' for its time, yet the only trains to ever run over it were two inspection trains before it was sold for scrap in 1921. The Hampden Railroad built a 65 ft high and 400 ft long bridge here over the Swift River valley and the CV and if it still existed 611 would be beneath it right now.
Yet, as impressive as this bridge must have been it was dwarfed by an 85 ft high and nearly 1100 ft long one at Bircham Bend over the Chicopee River near Springfield!
It was a superbly engineered super railroad built at the wrong time and for reasons that were made irrelevant by the politics of the day. These crumbling concrete piers are ghostly reminders of a railroad that almost was....
There's little to be found online about the railroad but this link offers a bit more if your interest is piqued:
wikimapia.org/3990014/The-location-where-The-longest-brid...
But if you really wish to learn purchase Phillip Johnson's book published in 2014:
Belchertown, Massachusetts
Friday October 14, 2022
With some manifest on the headend, train Q114 wraps around one of many curves between Bircham and Grainger.
I had a list as long as my arm of to do's on our recent visit to Norfolk. A visit to Snettisham hoping to catch a sunset was on the agenda. On route we spotted this lovely Windmill, which was partly hidden.
Great Bircham Windmill, was built in 1846 and is a Grade 11 listed Tower Mill. It has four sails and they are of the type double patent. Five storeys, it was built with three pairs of Mill Stones, of which two pairs remain.
It was built for a George Humphrey in 1846. The walls are two foot thick, it's fifty two feet to curb level and twenty five feet outside diameter at the base.