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Questa è la tipica e squallida cartolina. E’ il più classico mulino a vento olandese, anzi, non è nemmeno tipico: è commerciale. Non funziona. Si trova alla periferia di Amsterdam ad esclusivo uso e consumo dei turisti. Se proprio vogliamo essere pignoli una piccola variazione sul tema è presente e si manifesta sotto colpo di fortuna chiamato aereo. Ma nonostante l’aspetto ‘cartolina‘ questa è una foto che mi piace molto. Per i colori, per l’ambientazione, per il ricordo; perché ho dovuto aspettare tanto tempo per riuscire a cogliere il momento senza turisti. E le foto ottenute con pazienza e perseveranza sono sempre le migliori.
An early C19th Grade II listed tower mill. Following devastation in the 1987 storms the sails have now been refitted and it's back to working order.
We saw the remains of lots of these windmills in Mallorca and wondered what they were for -- maybe water pumps? These are in the city of Palma and we suspect that they were built to impress the tourists rather than as working examples.
I never knew of this windmill's existence till I came upon it at 4am. Needless to say I was quite surprised-so very Dutch in the Somerset countryside! I later returned at dawn to photo it.
After quite some time I decided to play with it (skew,S curve ect) and stick it on Flickr.
Nikon D7000 with sigma 24-70 macro @ f/6.3 for 1/125sec.
Clicked on a partly cloudy morning just after sunrise. Have used ND1000 to show cloud effect. Chesterton windmill is buit during Roman times and is situated just off Chesteron village in Warwickshire.
This is Zanse Schanse. In an effort to preserve some of the old windmills quite a few of them have been relocated to this little area somewhere North of Amsterdam. It was very cute, but very tourist catered.
Stone windmill. These can be found all over Fuerteventura as it is so flat, they are all still in use
Windmill in Serra do Louro, near Palmela, Portugal.
In the backgroud you see the castle of Palmela.
Serra do Louro hiking tour from Azeitão to Palmela (windmill tour). Serra do Louro is a kind of foothills of the Serra da Arrábida.
Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011
"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'. It was destroyed in 1791 during a gale. In the high winds, the sails revolved so fast that the friction caused the machinery to ignite!
In 1800, a new 'tower mill' was built from brick to replace the peg mill. The tower mill ground corn to flower for 75 years. Situated on top of Bidston Hill, it was ideally placed to catch the wind, but getting to and from the mill caused no end of problems for cart drivers. The windmill could produce 122lb (about 51kg) 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 that sails can follow the direction of the wind. On the back of the mill you can see the large wooden chain-wheel, which was used to turn the roof slowly around using a rack and gear system."
Craziest things ever - taller than Buffalo's City Hall. I think each blade is about 200 feet long. Took a crazy hike through a trashed beach, a desert, rock climbed, then paths through (well mostly above) pits of toxic waste from Bethlehem Steel (ass holes) only to find these crazy giants. Getting to the top of the hill (where I was standing for this) was so rewarding! They make a really violent humming noise..which I'm guessing is the turbines making power? Anyway, the day this was taken was probably the first time these have been photographed (also by Joe P, same day) as far as I know/have seen.
Heckington near Sleaford on the line from Lincoln to Skegness is the most perfect of country stations. A level crossing, functional signal box and semaphore signals and of course the 8 sail windmill.
The rudder sail of the windmill at Wilton in Wiltshire. It's surprising how well ballanced the whole revolving top of the windmill is. With only a very light breeze that day any slight movement of the sail easily moved the top dome and main sails. The rest in the series can be viewed on my stream. Thanks for visiting.
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In 1860, the British philanthropist Moses Montefiore (1774-1885) built new housing on a hill overlooking the Old City to help relieve the congestion and poverty in the Jewish Quarter. This area is called Yemin Moshe. The windmill was originally built to serve the milling needs of the residents of Montefiore's new developments, but it never became operational because of the lack of wind where it was situated.
Brixton Windmill listed Grade II, and is a significant landmark.
It is a reminder of Lambeth's rural past, once this borough had 12 windmills, this is the last remaining one in inner London, and it has been looked after by friends of Windmill Garden.
It is quite amazing when you stumble across it, and very interesting, and the realisation of how things have changed.
Kinderdijk is a village in the Netherlands, belonging to the municipality of Molenwaard, in the province South Holland, about 15 km east of Rotterdam. Kinderdijk is situated in a polder in the Alblasserwaard at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands. The windmills of Kinderdijk are one of the best-known Dutch tourist sites. They have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
The name Kinderdijk is Dutch for Children dike. In 1421, during the Saint Elizabeth flood of 1421, the Grote Hollandse Waard flooded, but the Alblasserwaard polder stayed unflooded. It is said that when the terrible storm had subsided, someone went on to the dike between these two areas, to see what could be saved. In the distance, he saw a wooden cradle floating on the waters. As it came nearer, some movement was detected. A cat was seen in the cradle trying to keep it in balance by jumping back and forth so that no water could get into it. As the cradle eventually came close enough to the dike for a bystander to pick up the cradle, he saw that a baby was quietly sleeping inside it, nice and dry. The cat had kept the cradle balanced and afloat. This folktale and legend has been published as The Cat and the Cradle in English.
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Cromer Windmill – Hertfordshire’s sole surviving windmill and a grade II* listed building dates from 1681, as determined by a dendrochronological survey conducted in 1998. It stands on an artificial mound just outside Cromer, near Ardeley, in which parish a windmill has stood for nearly 800 years.
Although blown over around 1860, Cromer Windmill was re-built and used until the 1920’s when milling by wind became uneconomic and the mill fell into disrepair. Apart from some repairs conducted in 1938 and sails having already been removed for safety, nothing further was done to the mill until an appeal in 1964 from concerned local people to save the windmill.
Restoration of Cromer Windmill and its internal machinery has taken more than 30 years to complete. Many organisations, including much support from local people, assisted with raising funds and restoration work.