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We passed this old windmill on the way back to Milton Keynes from Tring. The placard at the front gate reads:
"Pitstone Windmill - This is believed to be the oldest windmill in the Britsh Isles and bears the date 1627. It was badly damaged by the Great Storm of 1902, which ended its working life. After emergency repairs, a public subscription was opened in 1963 for the purchase of materials to enable restoration work to be undertaken by local volunteers. Given to the National Trust in 1937 by Mr L.J. Hawkins of Pitstone Green Farm."
Several different locations we saws these pretty windmills on the hillsides. Sometimes they went for miles and miles. Have a great Sunday, I have had a busy weekend - oldest grandchild went back to college - we helped move her in yesterday, I will get to everyone today, thanks for all of your support of my stream. ♥
A random windmill off the exit on I-84 into Baker City, Oregon. My son and I went in to check it out.
A Chinese cemetery memorial site is right across the road.
Chesterton Windmill is a 17th century cylindric stone tower windmill with an arched base, located outside the village of Chesterton, Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building and a striking landmark in South-East Warwickshire.
The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks, standing on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton for nearly 350 years, near the Roman Fosse Way and about five miles (8 km) south-east of Warwick. It was built in 1632-1633, probably by Sir Edward Peyto, who was Lord of the Chesterton Manor House. At this time John Stone, a pupil of Inigo Jones, was in Chesterton, designing the new Manor House, and he probably helped with the Windmill as well. Sir Edward was a mathematician and astrologer and probably his own architect to the windmill, but although claims have been made that the tower was originally built as an observatory, the estate accounts now at Warwick Record Office show that it has always been a windmill, making it the earliest tower mill in England to retain any of its working parts.
It is built of hard local limestone, with sandstone detailing, on a shallow platform of 71 feet 9 inches (21.87 m) in diameter. The mill tower with a cap height of 36 feet (11 m), unique worldwide in structure and mechanics, is supported on six semicircular arches, on piers, the outer faces of which are arcs of circles radiating from a common centre. A sandstone string course surmounts the six arches and runs round the tower, below the windows. There are four windows in the tower, two small and two much larger with stone mullioned windows. A three-light window set in the roof on the opposite side to the sails, has a small plaque above it with the letters "E. P. 1632".
Beside the open ground floor within the arches there are two more floors to the mill, the first, lower, or stone floor 15-foot (4.6 m) above ground level, housing millstones, great spur wheel, hurst frame, sack hoist rope passing through the floor trap, and the upper, second, or hoist floor with brake wheel, main gearing (wallover), sack hoist pulley, and parts of the winding winch. The windshaft and the main parts of the winding system including the wind direction inidicator is installed within the cap. The space inside the arches, until 1930, used to have a wooden structure to store the grain, and an open timber staircase to reach the milling floors. This structure was removed to prevent vandalism. The cap of the mill is a shallow dome which used to be covered with lead sheet, but also because of vandalism is now covered with aluminium. Between the cap and the top of the wall is a system of rollers running in a track plate allowing the cap to be rotated easily. There is a wind direction inidicator on the roof which is continued into the interior, and a small repeat indicator at its lower end, so that the miller could set the mill without leaving his work. The lattice-type-sails are 60 feet (18 m) span counter clock-wise rotation (seen from outside the mill; most of all windmills worldwide rotate clockwise seen from inside the mill - from "under the wind") and with 450 sq ft (42 m2) of canvas. The arched tower covers a very small diameter of 22 feet 9 inches (6.93 m) and it has an unusual "in cap" winding gear for an English windmill, the cap being winded by a hand operated winch having spur and worm gears.
In August 2011 I took a holiday in East Kent UK that alllowed me to photograph a group of Windmills in the far south East of England that had eluded me 20 years previously when I took most of my Windmill photographs in my collection. To see the collection click on the link below :
www.flickr.com/photos/taffytank/sets/72157614305330617/wi...
The Woodmanse Steel windmills are probably the most common of the products from the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company that can trace their origins to the early history of this important windmill company at Freeport, Illinois. Introduced in the early 1890's, they remained on the market into the 1930's.
Harrison Woodmanse, the founder of the firm known as the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1836. There he grew up and attended school, leaving his home and settling at Freeport, Illinois in 1868. In that year he opened a "depot for the sale of agricultural implements," dealing heavily in the Marsh Harvester, seventeen hundred of which he sold in a period of six years. Using some of his profits, in 1872 he opened his own factory for the manufacture of farm implements, where he initiated the manufacture of a solid wheel wooden Woodmanse windmill which with modifications remained in production as late as 1930. Harrison Woodmanse operated his manufacturing business under his own name until the early 1880's, but by 1882 it had become the Woodmanse Wind Mill Company. The company kept this name until about 1885, when Woodmanse took a partner and the firm became the Woodmanse and Hewitt Manufacturing Company. Business continued growing for the Freeport manufacturer, with its windmills being sold farther and farther afield, even on the West coast as early as 1892. Then in either 1900 or 1901, the firm became the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company, the corporate title under which it continued to operate into the 1950's, when its manufacturing of windmills ceased. The first Woodmanse Steel windmills appeared on the market about 1892. The direct stroke pattern uses castings very similar to those on the earlier solid wheel wooden mills, while the back geared pattern differs considerably. The direct stroke Woodmanse Steel windmills, even though remaining on the market until 1930, today are comparatively rare. Much more common are the open back geared mills which currently are the mills most often seen in the field.
In the mid 1890's direct stroke Woodmanse Steel mills were made in 10', 12', 13', and 14' sizes while the back geared model was produced in 8' and 10' diameters. The Woodmanse firm also produced a special heavy duty mill introduced about 1895 and know as the Woodmanse Mogul. In the 1890's it was made in 8', 10', 12', and 14' sizes, but by the beginning of this century the 8' model had been dropped and a 16' size was added. By 1910, the Mogul had become the Woodmanse mill sold specifically for deep well pumping, or situations requiring large amounts of water. In 1920 its range of sizes included 10 1/2', 12 1/2', 14', and 16' sizes. The large size remaining on the market as late as 1938.
Both the Woodmanse Steel and the Woodmanse back geared mills remained on the market until 1930, when they were phased out of production.
Governing on all the Woodmanse Steel mills is on the same principal. The vane is set slightly to one side, causing the wheel to incline away from increasing wind. As this occurs, tension increases on a torsion governor spring mounted on the vane hinge, placing increased pressure to return the wheel to face the wind. When the mill governs out of the wind or when it is turned off from the ground a friction brake engages.
The wind wheel consists of curved galvanized steel blades attached with riveted steel clips to curved bar steel rims. The vane sheet is firmly attached to a two member angle steel vane stem which is mounted in a cast iron vane hinge at the head of the mill. The vane sheet bears the sole ornamentation on the mill, the black stenciled inscription of the manufacturer's name and location.
A surprising number of old Woodmanse Steel mills remain to be seen scattered about the plains and prairies. Introduced on March 1, 1923, the Woodmanse Oil Bath was the first self oiling windmill manufactured by the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company of Freeport, Illinois. The mills made with several mechanical modifications through the years, remained available into the 1950's, although their production was greatly restricted during the war years of the 1940's. Today the most common pattern of the mill is its back geared steel model. A number of variations are found in the back geared Woodmanse Oil Bath mills. The initial mills, termed Style E were produced from 1923 to 1926. These first mills were phased out of production in less than three years in favor of the Style G which was manufactured from 1926 to 1933, when a new Style GB was introduced. The Style GB with an altered vane and governor spring was made under contract by the Woodmanse Company, which distributed it as the New Eclipse during the 1930's. The GB pattern remained in production into the 1950's, but in July 1935 an additional Style J was placed on the market. The final new pattern available only in small diameter, is noted for having a steel hood with a curved profile instead of sharp rectangular hood used on the other Oil Bath mills.
The initial Style E back geared mills were made in 6', 8', and 10' diameters, but with their replacement by the Style G in 1926 a 12' size was added. All four sizes remained on the market until WWII.
The vane sheet bears the only ornamentation on the mill, the black stenciled words, "Woodmanse Oil Bath Wind Mill."
Cromer Windmill, Hertfordshire, 18 May 2011. A Grade II* listed building. I can't really believe how many times I've been past and not photographed it.
I got to grab a few extraordinary shots while on the way to and from Denver. They look beautiful, right?
While travelling along the Pollachi-Udumalpet, wind turbines with gigantic blades greet us on both sides.
Udumalpet, once popular for having dozens of spinning mills, is slowly turning into a town of windmills. With land not available in wind-rich Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts and with inadequate grid facility, industrialists have already shifted focus to the Udumalpet-Palladam region on the Palakkad pass.
Though it may appear like a big fan with wings, its size and weight will amaze you. The tower of a turbine goes up to 78 metres and the length of each blade is 40 metres. The nosal atop the tower, where the generator works, weighs around 50 tonnes.
Tamil Nadu has installed wind power capacity of 4287 MW as on 31.03.2008, which is over 44 % of the wind power capacity installed in the entire country
Shot in the outskirts of Udumalpet
Source : reports from the web