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Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire has been overlooking the village of Chesterton for 350 years.
It was extremely windy when i took this and the heavens opened up. I had to run for cover underneath the windmill. It soon blew over though as you can see by the other shot
Miscellaneous Composition; Santa Fe, New Mexico; ©2011 DianaLee Photo Designs; please see www.flickr.com/photos/negra223/ for more New Mexico photos
The Windmill at Brill was built around 1680. It is built on a central post so that the whole body of the mill can be turned to face the wind. The round house at the base of the mill is a much later addition; the first roundhouse being built in 1865, the current one being built in 1948. The mill was last used for milling barley in 1915.
The landscape of deep hollows around the mill are the result of clay extraction for the production of bricks and pottery, which began around 1000 years ago
Images taken in the evening light at the windmills of Kinderdijk.
Nikon D800 - Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 lens
Blennerville, Kerry, Ireland
My contacts will recognise this shot, I took a few shots of this windmill a few months back (see below). It became my most popular shot on Flickr. One of the comments made on the shot was that a wider lens would have worked better. The original (below) was taken with a 17-85mm, and this shot was taken with a 10mm lens. I used the same processing to try and recreate the shot. I cant decide which I prefer, I think the shy and shadows of the sails work best in the original but the wider angle is perhaps more striking.. Ill let you decide ;)
Some Info on the Mill:
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett (a well known Tralee character) built the Blennerville Windmill in 1800, by 1846 the windmill had fallen in ruins. In 1981 the Tralee Urban Council purchased the windmill and has developed it as a tourist attraction.
Blennerville Windmill is a living reminder of Ireland’s rich industrial heritage. Featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the “ largest working windmill” in Great Britain and Irelan, visitors are guided by the miller through each element of the four making process.
Central Washington is growing the biggest collection of modern wind turbines I can imagine. I'd be curious to know how many of these monsters (they're HUGE) are tucked among the hills. I'm guessing at least 100. Most of them are less than a year old. Sadly, hardly any of them were turning today and those that were were sloooowwww.
Constructed circa 1840, the Haigh Windmill is an unmistakeable landmark set within agricultural fields contained within the Haigh Hall estate.The windmill is Grade II listed and was built to pump water from the nearby ponds 500m uphill to the Haigh Brewery.
The Haigh windmill, constructed in brick, with a timber roof, underwent a program of restoration in the late 1970s and as a result a new roof was constructed of glass fibre. The existing sails have suffered repeatedly from storm damage, with lost or broken timbers and the brickwork is showing extensive areas of decay, with failed pointing and spalled brick facing. Now with the help of a £50,000 grant from Heritage Lottery Fund’s Your Heritage programme the windmill has been repaired and restored so that it can be maintained for future generations. Further funding has been put toward the project from Wigan Council, Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Mills Section.
The project involved considerable repair work to the windmills brickwork which had become damaged by recent severe winters causing the brickwork to ‘spall’. New sails were constructed by a specialist Mill Wright and the fibreglass cap that was placed on the windmill in the 1970’s was modified and repaired so that it was more in keeping with the original design.
The project has had a lot of input from the 3 local primary schools St David’s C.E. Primary, Our Lady’s R.C. Primary and Aspull Church Primary who have learned about the history and heritage of the windmill and the Haigh area from the Council’s Environmental Education team. Pupils were given a lesson about the history of windmills and it was explained how they are an important part of our national heritage. Pupils visited Southport Eco-Centre to learn about modern windmills (wind turbines) where they learned about how wind power is used to create electricity. Pupils learned about the bread making process and how windmills were used in food production and they also helped to design a mosaic with the theme of local landmarks (including the windmill) which has now also been completed in the roadside verge outside St David’s school.
A Haigh Windmill Restoration Walk has been created to celebrate the completion of the project and a draft version of the leaflet (1498Kb) and Haigh Windmill Restoration Walk map (1484Kb) are available for download. The walk takes in Haigh Windmill and many of the other points of historical interest located around the Haigh Estate.
Maple St, Waltham, Vermont USA • Leaning, derelict wood-sided windmill, with the Adirondack Mountains in the distance.
"moinho de versos
movido a vento
em noites de boemia
vai vir o dia
quando tudo que eu diga
seja poesia"
- Paulo Leminski
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Kinderdijk windmills: unique & iconic water management
A significant part of Holland is situated up to approximately 7 meters below sea level. The Dutch don’t notice any of this though, because an incredibly innovative and intricate system keeps the ever-rising seawater from flooding the land. Even during spring tide, the Dutch are safely guarded from being washed away…
The most important aspect of UNESCO World Heritage Kinderdijk is undoubtedly the unique collection of 19 authentic windmills, which are considered a Dutch icon throughout the entire world.
(As seen in: www.kinderdijk.com/ )
In an effort to see the Mo'okini Heiau, we took a road that passed by the Hawi Wind Farm. Bizarre seeing windmills and cows on the Hawai'i coast, but they there they were.
Kohala Coast, Hawai'i
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