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Overwaard Molen No. 3, 2 en 1
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Some of the windmills at the Palm Springs windmill farm near Whitewater Canyon, CA. Shot with a rented Canon 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS II lens.
Canon 5D mkIII, Canon 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS II@100mm, f8@1/40th sec, ISO 200, B+W XS-Pro Kaesemann HTC Polarizer
Shirley Windmill was built by Richard Alwen in 1854 to replace the former post mill destroyed by fire. The post mill had been built in 1809 by Richard Alwen (Sr) and passed to Alwen on the death of his father in 1846. The post mill burnt down in October 1854.[2]
The mill is thought to have been brought from Stratford and re-erected [2][3] A date of 1740 on a beam in the windmill is evidence of re-use of materials from elsewhere. The mill cost £2,000 to build.[2] More recent research has suggested that a post mill at West Ham, allegedly moved to Shirley c.1809, may have been the mill in question
A post for Windmill Wednesday! A closer look at the historic wooden windmill located at Old Prairie Town in Topeka.
This windmill sat in front of an abandoned farmhouse. The wind was blowing and it made a sad screeching sound as the old metal parts scraped against each other.
Halnaker Windmill is a tower mill which stands on Halnaker Hill, northeast of Chichester, Sussex, England. The Mill is reached by a public footpath from the north end of Halnaker, where a track follows the line of Stane Street before turning west to the hilltop. There is no machinery in the brick tower, which can be used for shelter.
Halnaker Mill was first mentioned in 1540 as belonging to the manor of "Halfnaked". It was built for the Duke of Richmond as the feudal mill of the Goodwood Estate. The surviving mill is thought to date from the 1740s and is known to have been standing c.1780. Halnaker Mill was working until struck by lightning in 1905, damaging the sails and windshaft. The derelict mill was restored in 1934 by Neve's, the Heathfield millwrights as a memorial to the wife of Sir William Bird. Further repair work was done in 1954 by E Hole and Sons, The Burgess Hill millwrights. The mill was again restored in 2004. The mill is owned by West Sussex County Council.
Halnaker Mill is a four-storey tower mill with a sixteen sided beehive cap. The mill was originally hand wound, and later fitted with a fantail, which was not replicated when the mill was restored. The four common sails were originally carried on a wooden windshaft, which was damaged by the 1905 lightning strike. A cast iron windshaft and wooden brake wheel from a wind sawmill at Punnetts Town were fitted. The windshaft is cast in two pieces, bolted together and was too short for Halnaker Mill. Neve's inserted a spacer to lengthen it. The mill worked two pairs of overdrift millstones.
Halnaker Mill (or Ha'nacker Mill, reflecting the true pronunciation) is the subject of a poem by the English writer Hilaire Belloc in which the collapse of the Mill is used as a metaphor for the tragic decay of the prevailing moral and social system.
Ha'nacker Mill
SALLY is gone that was so kindly,
Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill
And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;
And ever since then the clapper is still...
And the sweeps have fallen from Ha'nacker Mill.
Ha'nacker Hill is in Desolation:
Ruin a-top and a field unploughed.
And Spirits that call on a fallen nation,
Spirits that loved her calling aloud,
Spirits abroad in a windy cloud.
Spirits that call and no one answers --
Ha'nacker's down and England's done.
Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers,
And never a ploughman under the Sun:
Never a ploughman. Never a one.
The wind was blowing hard but this poor machine was chained down today,
shaking and groaning wanting to turn.
Cley Windmill grade II* listed tower mill at Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.
Cley windmill was built in the early 19th century. It was not marked on William Faden's map of Norfolk published in 1797. The first mention was an advert in the Norfolk Chronicle of 26 June 1819, where the mill was for sale, described as "newly erected" and in the ownership of the Farthing family. The mill was not sold and remained the property of the Farthing family, until 1875, when Dorothy Farthing, the then owner, died. The mill was bought by the miller, Stephen Barnabas Burroughes. It was worked by the Burroughes family until c. 1912, when the business was transferred to their windmill at Holt.
In 1921, the windmill was sold by the Burroughes brothers to Mrs Sarah Maria Wilson for the sum of £350 and she had the mill converted to a holiday home. The architect responsible for the conversion was Cecil Upcher. The machinery was removed, with the gear wheels being cut in half and used as decoration within the mill.
The mill was inherited by Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Blount, in 1934. On 31 January 1953, the mill was flooded to a depth of at least 8 feet (2.44 m). In 1960, Norfolk County Council and the Pilgrim Trust both made grants to enable the sails to be replaced, the council granting £500 and the trust granting £300 towards a total cost of £1,500. The work was done by R Thompson & Son, the Alford, Lincolnshire millwrights. Further grants were received by Lt Col Blount from Norfolk County Council in 1963 and 1971.
Lt Col Blount died on 1 February 1979 and the mill was inherited by his youngest son, Colonel Charles Blount, father of the singer James Blunt, who spent much time there as a child. The mill was offered for sale in May 1982, but did not sell. In 1983, planning permission and listed building consent was sought from North Norfolk District Council to turn the mill and complex into a guesthouse and self-catering units. This was granted, with the mill opening as a guesthouse on 27 April 1983.
In 1986-87, the cap gallery, sails and fantail were renewed. Grants totalling £19,000 were given by English Heritage and Norfolk County Council towards an estimated cost of £45,000. The work was done by millwrights John Lawn and John Bond. In December 2006 the windmill was put up for sale for the sum of £1,500,000.
I had today off work and sat down this afternoon wondering if there was anything interesting close by I could photograph. A quick google search came up with Chesterton Windmill which is +- 30 mins drive away from my house. I grabbed my equipment and jumped into the car.
Possibly not the easiest place to find, but definately worth the effort.
I've been playing around with the built in HDR function on my Nikon D5100 and the results so far havent been great. So I thought I would give Photomatix a try. Quite happy with the results.
Herringfleet Mill, a smock windmill in Suffolk. Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/tris1972/ for the inspiration
Black and white night photograph.
Lytham Windmill is situated on Lytham Green in the coastal town of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England
Thrigby Is a Post Mill built around 1790 by Robert Woolmer, situated in the civil parish of Mautby in the County of Norfolk and north of the river Bure.
It was built to grind wheat produced on the Thrigby estate.
The Post Mill has a two foot square oak main post that rises vertically through the round house and carry's the weatherboard clad body or "Buck" of the Mill.
The last miller Alfred Hood who was also a local farmer ran the mill until 1889.
In 1892 the wooden structure was found to be infested with "Death watch" beetle and was dismantled leaving only the brick roundhouse intact.
Almost 100 years later in 1981 the mill was brought by Nick Prior who set about restoration.
This is one of my earliest digital shots and still endures as a favorite now ten years later. It is actually taken just outside my home town of Junction City where I grew up and then came back and taught and lived the final sixteen years of my career. I no longer live there but visit often and still see this windmill in the field.
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