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Ashby's Mill was built in 1816 and worked by wind until 1862, when the business was transferred to a watermill at Mitcham on the River Wandle. The sails were removed in 1864 and the windmill was relegated to use as a store. In 1902, the lease on the watermill expired and a steam engine was installed in the windmill. This was later replaced by a gas engine. The windmill was worked by engine until 1934, and supplied wholemeal flour to West End hotels and restaurants.
After the war, there were proposals to demolish the mill and build a block of flats. The proposal was rejected and it was decided to conserve the mill, which was restored in 1964 by London County Council. New sails were fitted, and machinery from a derelict windmill at Burgh La Marsh, Lincolnshire installed to replace that which had been removed. The work being done by Thompson's, the Alford Millwrights. Following restoration, the mill was opened to the public at Easter 1968. The mill passed to Lambeth Council in 1971 and remains in their ownership. Further restoration was carried out in 1978 and 1983, but the windmill had been placed on the Buildings at Risk Register in 1995
The Friends of Windmill Gardens had been formed in April 2003 with the aim of restoring the windmill and surrounding area as a public amenity. In September 2004, an archaeological dig was organised, with assistance from the Museum of London Archaeology Service. A £25,000 grant was given by Lambeth Borough Council towards repairs to the mill and gardens. A £2,000,000 restoration plan has been put together with assistance from the Horniman Museum and the .Society for the protection of ancient buildings An application for a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fundwas submitted. The Heritage Lottery Fund granted £397,700 towards the restoration. Lambeth Council and the Friends of Windmill Gardens also contributed towards the restoration of the mill, which cost £581,000. The restored mill was officially opened to the public on 2 May 2011 by Chuka Umunna, MP for Streatham.
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."
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...
Beautiful sunrise this morning,couldn't take full advantage because of the six feet high field of beans.
It was shipped from Denmark and is the only working Danish windmill in the US. Sitting next to the windmill is a Danish Immigrant Museum. Elk Horn, Iowa and nearby Kimballton, Iowa makes up the largest rural Danish community outside of Denmark.
This one is definitely a windmill. I saw a few of them around the place. It's certainly a windy enough place to keep them going.
Sunrise at my faveourite windmills,,,, well I pass them on my way to work lol
Jack and Jill Windmills at clayton East sussex
Here's a couple of windmills just off of Rt. 122 near Delavan. It was dead calm that evening, so nothing was turning. I love how the two are positioned just perfectly.
In addition to my Amsterdam project I also wanted to build a windmill. It is loosely based on the windmills at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands and the windmill at Rövershagen in Northern Germany.
The mill has an octagonal shaped base and a roof (also called cap) that rotates. It is built in a modular way. The first two levels are fully furnished. On the ground floor there is a pottery workshop with a kiln, a pottery wheel, shelves for clay, different types of glaze and finished items. On the second floor there is the apartement of the potter.
The shape of the mill was quite challenging and I wanted to quit the build more than once. But I like how it turned out.
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...
Using the square format and High Dynamic Range options introduced in version 2.1 firmware on Panasonic DMC-LX3
I keep promising myself that I won't take anymore pictures of the windmill, then the sun comes out, blue sky, it looks so majestic. Oh well.
There are currently 16 windmills on Mykonos. Most of them were built by the Venetians in the 16th century, and were primarily used to grind wheat. They ceased production in the middle of the 20th century.
A mill in Ireland. This is the only windmill I saw in the entire country, on one of the only days with a blue sky I saw.
From Wikipedia -
Barnham Windmill lies on the South-Eastern boundary of the village on the road to Yapton. The present windmill was built in 1829 and has undergone start-and-stop restoration for over a decade although there seems to have been little work done since 2007. The windmill used to be accessible through the adjacent tea rooms (albeit in a rather 'at your own risk', unofficial manner!), but when the tea rooms closed in 2005 so did access to the mill. In August 2009, work began to turn the tea rooms and adjacent property into a total of 5 dwellings, with the provisional development plans stating that the windmill would be turned into a '4/5 bedroom house'.
Another excerpt from Wikipedia -
John Baker's Mill is a grade II listed tower mill at Barnham, Sussex, England which was under restoration and is now to be converted to residential use.
History
John Baker's Mill was built in 1829. The mill was known as Feaver's Mill in the 1860s. In 1890, the mill tower was raised by 18 inches (460 mm) and completely refitted by J W Holloway, the Shoreham millwright. It was working by wind until the early 1920s. The mill was worked by engine until 1963. The sails and fantail were removed in August 1958.
On 16 January 2008, Arun District Council gave Listed Building Consent for the windmill to be house converted, despite strong opposition from the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
Description
For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.
John Baker's Mill is a four storey flint and stone tower mill with a stage at first floor level. When built, she had two Common sails and two Spring sails. These were replaced with four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft, in 1890. The mill is fitted with Holloway's screw brake. The cap is a beehive shape, winded by a fantail. The mill drove two pairs of millstones originally, and Holloway's added a third pair. Currently, the stocks for the sails are on the mill, but the sails haven't been erected yet.
Millers
Henry Feaver 1866
Maurice & John Baker 1882 - ?
Percy Baker 1910 - 1916
Len Baker 1916 - 1945
R C Reynolds 1945 - 1963
nrhp # 79000075- Davidson Windmill is a historic windmill in Lakeside, Wisconsin, United States.[2]
The windmill was built in 1900 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Built by Finnish immigrant and homesteader, Jacob (Jaako Tapola) Davidson, the Davidson Windmill is one of a very few grist mills in the Midwest, and the only one in Wisconsin known to be of Finnish origin. It sits on a bluff overlooking the Amnicon River and served Old-Brule and Lakeside in the South Shore region from 1904 to 1926. Constructed of native materials, it was used for milling locally grown grains for both animal and human consumption.
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