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A view of Lytham windmill with the church of St John The Devine in the background.
Lytham Windmill website:
Weybourne towermill was built in 1850 on the north side of the Sheringham Road. Weybourne was originally spelt Wabourne. The five storey red brick tower stood at about 42 ft. to its curb.
1850: Mill built
1850: Daniel Brett, miller
1859: John Dawson advertised the mill to be let
c.1869: John Dawson bankrupt
1872: James Buckenham, miller
September 1873: Mill to advertised to be let at a rent of £35 per annum
1875: Adam Aldridge, miller
O.S. map 1886: Windmill
Kelly's 1879: William Thomas Bird, miller & farmer
Kelly's 1892: James Youngman, farmer & miller (wind)
Census 1901: Thomas Youngman (42) b.Honing, corn miller
c.1916: Mill ceased to work
c.1925: Mill restored but machinery removed except windshaft
1929: J. Sydney Brocklesby. Mill with no sails, fantail or gallery
Karl Wood painting 1937: Tower with cap, gallery, fanstage and windshaft but no sails
c.1942: Mr & Mrs Dodds
c:1945 - 1952: William Read, Sarahann Read and daughter Rosemary Read
1956: Mill cap and fan frame still in situ but no sails or stocks
1967: Mill bought by Mr. W.M.T. Boby of Watford.
1968 New cap made and installed by William Bird & Son, Contractors Ltd. of North Walsham
Spring 1969: Skeleton sails installed by Thompson & Son of Alford, Lincs. No brakewheel, so sails were fixed
August 1970: Woodwork painted with a grant from Norfolk Windmills Trust
1973: Grant from Norfolk Windmills Trust for further work
3rd January 1978: Mill sails struck by lightning bursting a water pipe
8th May 1981: Mill advertised for sale for £150,000
January May 1982: Mill sold for £125,000
1986: Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Godlee
September 1986: Part of a sail damaged in a gale removed by millwright, John Lawn
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-224655-weybourne-mill...
Beautiful sunrise this morning,couldn't take full advantage because of the six feet high field of beans.
Birds eye view - Windmill farm in Bradford County, PA taken by flying below and in between the windmills. The yellow blurry object is the airplane wing strut.
Cley windmill.
Cley Next the Sea North Norfolk.
c.1819: Mill built, possibly by William Farthing
Bryant's map 1826: Windmill
White's 1836: John Lee, corn & coal merchant, miller & maltster
1840-1919: Steven Barnabas Burroughs and Burroughs family
Tithe Award 1841: Owner John Farthing; Occupier John Lee
White's 1845: John Lee, corn & coal merchant, miller & maltster
1846: John Lee, miller
1850: William Edward Powell, miller & merchant
1853: Lawrence Randall, miller
White's 1854: Lawrence Randall, corn miller, coal & cake merchant
1862: Lawrence Randall, miller
1875: Stephen Barnabas Burroughs, miller
February 1876: Mill advertised for sale by auction in occupation of S. B. Burroughes, copyhold of the Manor
Kelly's 1879: Stephen Barnabas Burroughs, miller, baker & corn merchant
June 1886: Mill advertised for sale by auction in occupation of S. B. Burroughes, annual tenant at a rent of £50. Freehold
Kelly's 1892: Stephen Barnabas Burroughs, miller (wind), baker & coal & corn merchant; & at Holt & Langham
1921: Mill bought by Sarah Maria Wilson from Burroughes Flour Mills for £350 and converted to holiday home.
c.1921: Machinery removed; cap and sails fixed
1934: Mill inherited by Col. Hubert Blount (grandson of Sarah Wilson)
31st January 1953: Mill under 8 to 9 feet of water during the great sea flood
1st February 1976: Lt. Col. Hubert Blount died
1960: Sails replaced
1979: Colonel Charles and Jane Blount
May 1982: Mill advertised for sale
21st April 1983: Planning consent granted to turn the mill and complex into a guesthouse & self catering units
EDP 8th January 1987: John Lawn & John Bond take down fan assembly for renovation
5th August 1987: New fantail and frame installed by John Lawn, millwright
1987: Miss Caroline Hederman, property manageress
2004: Mill used for self catering and B&B accommodation
2005: Colonel Charles & Jane Blount retired leaving the mill to be run by nephew John Woodhouse & wife Val
2006: Charlotte Martin property manageress
May 2006: Mill advertised for sale by Strutt & Parker for c.£1,500,000
December 2006: Mill sold to Julian & Carolyn Godlee of Hertfordshire
2007: Mill still to offer self catering & B&B accommodation with the restaurant being opened to non residents
2006: Charlotte Martin property manageress
14th December 2011: Rock star Rick Wakeman, married for the 4th time at the mill
Grade ll Listed building.
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-224599-cley-mill-cley...
This windmill was once used to pump salty water from the Mar Menor to the salt works of San Pedro Del Pinatar, Spain. Electrical pumps are now used.
Using the square format and High Dynamic Range options introduced in version 2.1 firmware on Panasonic DMC-LX3
Another great sight in Amsterdam - a Dutch Windmill! Make sure you see one on your river or ocean cruise! www.theluxurycruisecompany.com/
A splendid place for a pot of tea and a cream bun. And maybe if your lucky 'East Yorkshire Bob' may visit you
The windmill on Bidston Hill is mentioned in an early manuscript dated 1609 and may have been there as early as 1596. It is next mentioned in the Kingston map of 1665 . The mill of 1665 was a “peg mill”, which was destroyed in 1791 during a gale which caused the sails to break loose and revolve at such a speed that the friction caused the machinery to ignite!
It was succeeded by this brick-built tower mill and was used to grind corn to flour for 75 years. The mill was built in the year 1800 and although access to its facilities caused no end of problems for cart drivers, it was ideally placed to catch the wind. The windmill could produce 122 lb (50.84 kg ) of flour every 3 to 5 minutes (depending on the wind speed).
In this style of mill the top or ‘cap’ can be rotated through 360° so the sails could be moved to follow the direction of the wind. On the back of the mill you can see the large wooden chain-wheel, which was used to slowly turn the roof around using a rack and gear system. The last miller to work the mill was Mr Youds. Although safety concerns were not as important in the 1800s as they are today, the windmill did have one important safety feature: an extra door! This prevented millers walking out of the mill into the rapidly turning sails (60 miles an hour on a good day).
Unfortunately it didn’t always work and one of Mr Youds’ predecessors forgot which door he needed to use and was hit by one of the four heavy sails and was killed.
During the 1890s, Bidston Hill was purchased by the Bidston Hill Committee from Lord Vyner for public use and in 1894 the windmill was restored by a Mr R. S. Hudson. The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral carried out more remedial work over the years until 2004, when the windmill was closed to public. The roof was repaired in February 2006. The windmill is now an educational resource.
From 2014, the Friends of Bidston Hill open the Windmill to the public on the first Saturday of every month between April and September. Opening hours are 10 am to 12 noon (last entry at 11:45). During the winter months, when hibernating bats are in residence, the windmill is closed.
The plaque on the windmill reads:
This land, including the woods surrounding this windmill, containing with the adjacent piece of land known as Thermopylae about 90 acres (360,000 m2) was purchased from RG de Grey Vyner during the years 1894 to 1908 at a cost of £30,310. Of this sum the Corporation of Birkenhead contributed £14,625 and £15,685 was raised by public subscription. A portion of this land, viz the eastern wood containing 22 acres (89,000 m2), was purchased as a memorial of the late Edmund Taylor, of Oxton, in recognition of his great services in connection with the acquisition of Bidston Hill for the benefit of the public. The land belongs to and is maintained at the expense of the Corporation of Birkenhead. But according to the deeds of conveyance it must always be used as an open space and place of public recreation and must be preserved and maintained, so far as possible, in its present wild and natural condition. Special care being given to preservation of the trees, gorse, heath and also of this windmill. Bye laws have been made and a keeper and assistant appointed so that they are observed. The public, for whose enjoyment alone the land was secured, are invited to aid in preserving it from fire and damage.
AD MCMIX. This tablet restored 1971.
An 11 image pano of Bidston Widmill,
Stitching was done using Autopano Giga 3.5 final PP'ing with Photoshop CS6
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A lone windmill at the Columbia Basin Wind Farm, Eastern Washington State
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Der Wind, der Wind weiß wer ich bin
Der Wind, der Wind treibt mich dorthin
Der Wind, der Wind bleibt mir im Sinn
Der Wind, der Wind weiß wer ich bin
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