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Location: Coastal Path, St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
St Monans Windmill is a tangible reminder of an industry that blighted the environment of coastal communities right along the shores of the Firth of Forth: salt production. The role of the windmill was to provide the power to pump sea water from tidal-fed reservoirs, cut into the rocks offshore, into salt pans.
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ten favourite lyrics
1. If all our lives are just a dream, fantastic posing greed, then we should feed our jewelry to the sea. For diamonds do appear to be just like broken glass to me.
(Northern Downpour - Panic! At the Disco)
2. He stumbled into faith and thought: God, is this all there is?
(Blue Lips - Regina Spektor)
3. So I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for.
(A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay)
4. Questions of science, science and progress, don't speak as loud as my heart.
(The Scientist - Coldplay)
5. It was raining cats and dogs outside of her window and, she knew they were destined to become sacred roadkill on the way.
(Braille - Regina Spektor)
6. Courage is something I'll need now, 'cause it's been a hell of a day, I spent fading away. But we all fade sometimes, I believe.
(There, There Katie - Jack's Mannequin)
7. You have been followed back to the same place I, sat with you drink for drink, take the pain out of love, and the love won't exist.
(Everything We Had - The Academy Is...)
8. Take all the courage you have left, wasted on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head.
(Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons)
9. Avoid the obvious, we should be facing the truth.
(Kickstarts - Example)
10. In circles round the well and where it spells, on the wall behind St. Peter. So bright on cinder gray in spray paint, 'Who the hell can see forever?'
(The Trapeze Swinger - Iron & Wine)
Upminster Windmill was built by James Nokes, a local farmer, in 1803. It is a Grade II* listed building and in terms of quality, completeness and significance it is widely considered to be amongst the very best remaining English smock mills.
Flour was produced until 1910 though the Mill continued to grind animal feed until 1934, by which time further production was uneconomic. The Mill and its many outbuildings, including
two mill houses, then became derelict.
In 1960 Essex County Council demolished the outbuildings though in the following years repairs were undertaken enabling the Mill to be opened to the public, staffed by volunteers, in 1967.
Driving back towards Kings Lynn from Blakeney this afternoon we saw this wonderful windmill somewhere near Burnham Overy Staithe, with a beautiful golden sky as a backdrop. As we were on a narrow country road we ended up driving into a farmers field for a clear view! This is how it looked, very little post processing has been done, just a wee bit of sharpening.
ower windmill originally a timber framed smock windmill built 1726 raised in 1860 and much rebuilt following a storm in 1889. Restored 1975 and now a working mill. Brick, tarred. Four storeys with capping rebuilt in metal sheeting but in original ogee shape. Renewed fantail and two sails. Most of the interior is of the C19, but there is some timber reused from the 1726 mill including part of the main shaft. EH Listing
I still have a few photos from our trip Kansas that I want to share, including this one. It's just a typical Kansas Windmill with the afternoon sun behind it.
A postcard of the Old Dutch Mill, which is located in Mount Emblem Cemetery in Elmhurst. According to the Mount Emblem website, the Old Dutch Mill was built in 1865 as an operating mill in the traditional Dutch smock style. The windmill was one of the first of its kind built in the Chicago area.
Campos, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Ferro Windmill : introduced in Mallorca in 1934, it's an adaptation of American style windpump to the older tailed Ramell windpump (introduced in 1862)
There is a large numbers of windmills that are dotted around the Campos area: these are used to pump water around the various little farms.
So for how long will we see these things standing around now. Now that the government probably will change and will get out of alternative energy?
Shipley Smock Windmill, fictional home of Jonathan Creek in the TV series, 14 February 2009, Photograph by Justin Brice.
taken at Bembridge, Isle of Wight. One of the oldest windmills on the island (built in 1700). More details here (opens in a new window)