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The windmills in Schiedam are the highest windmills in the world. They were originally build for the production of Jenever.
Four traditional Dutch windmills stand sentinel against a dramatic sky in Kinderdijk. The muted colors and overcast conditions create a serene, almost melancholic atmosphere. The windmills UNESCO site, a testament to Dutch ingenuity and history, are positioned amidst a landscape of reeds and a frozen waterway.
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The plastered and white-washed tapering tower is a landmark in that area and the last remaining windmill of more than a hundred mills in County Down. It is estimated that Ballycopeland windmill was built around the 1780s or 90s, appearing on the first Ordnance Survey maps of the area in 1830s. It was owned by the McGilton family and the mill ground grain until 1915. In 1935 it was acquired by the government of Northern Ireland. Disused for many decades, in 1978, the old windmill was restored to working order again.
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• Windmühle nahe dem Ort " Gelbenande " und Mönchhagen ", Ostseeküste Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Deutschland •
• Windmill, near the towns " Gelbensande " and " Mönchhagen " in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Baltic Sea / Germany •
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Medieval windmill dating from the 16th century on a hill overlooking the town of Consuegra in Toledo province, Castilla La Mancha, central Spain. Made famous in Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's novel Don Quijote de la Mancha, these windmills are situated about 150km south of Madrid
Windmills again ...I just have a passion for them ...!
These two pumped in tandem in rural Freestate , SA !
This is Chesterton Windmill, in daylight no less. Any chance to head out with camera in hand is worth taking. Today gave me a chance to use Rugs, new fisheye lens. I like it.
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.
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.
Visiting Halnaker Tower Windmill near Chichester, West Sussex, June 2008. Photograph by Justin Brice.
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill was built in 1787 for Joseph Lindsell. Lindsell sold the mill in 1807 to Henry Chaplin, who mortgaged the mill to Robert Sworder in April 1808. Chaplin died in 1844 and the mill was offered for sale by auction on 22 December 1846 without a buyer being found.
In 1847, it was reported that one pair of sails required replacement. The old Common sails were replaced with a pair of Spring sails at a cost of £29 4s 0d by Thomas Seabrook, millwright of Furneaux Pelham, Hertfordshire. In March 1848, it was reported that one of the remaining Common sails had blown down, and the remaining sail was not fit for further work. A pair of “new Patent sails” was fitted at a cost of £12 5s 0d, with a new sail back costing a further £5 13s 4d. In November 1848 the mill was again working on two sails, and another pair of Patent sails were fitted at a cost of £23. Hicks demanded a reduction in rent from £60 to £45 per annum at midsummer 1850, which he was successful in obtaining.
Hicks left the mill in 1853, and recommended William Randall Dixon to be the next tenant. Dixon took the mill on a seven-year lease at £45 in May that year. A bake office was built in February 1854 at Dixon’s request and the rent was increased to £55. An oak stock was reported as cracked at about this time, and the mill was again reduced to two sails in September 1854 as a stock was defective. Dixon left the mill in 1856 and Edward Hicks again took the tenancy of the mill.
In 1860 Hicks asked for the mill to be modernised and a new steam mill to be built. The proposal for the steam mill was dropped, but a new windshaft was required and a fantail was asked for in return for an increase in rent. The cap frame was also repaired, with a new weatherbeam fitted.[5] A new cast iron windshaft was fitted by Seabrook at a cost of £25. Seabrook fitted a new fantail in that year at a cost of a further £25.[6] Hicks left the mill in June 1861, and a local man by the name of Ervin took the mill at a reduced rent of £40.[5] In 1862, millwright Fyson of Soham remodelled the machinery, converting the mill from an underdrift mill to an overdrift mill at a cost of £58 13s 7d. The stage and round house were removed at this time. John Buck took the mill in 1863 an a rent of £20, and reported that various work done by Fyson was faulty. Rectification was carried out by Seabrook. The mill was sold to William White in January 1865 for £1,150.
By 1870, the mill had four double Patent sails which were over 7 feet (2.1 m) wide. A steam engine was assisting the sails by 1890.[5] The mill last worked commercially in 1910. In 1930, the tower had to be strengthened with three iron bands[6] and in 1934 the second Lord Blyth had the mill repaired and presented it to the parish. The mill served as a Scout hut from the 1940s to 1963. It was scheduled as an Ancient Monument in 1952. The mill was opened to the public for the first time in 1964, with restoration work being done in 1966. In 1984-5, the mill was repaired by Millwrights International of Mapledurham, Berkshire at a cost of £14,000. The work enabled both the cap and sails to turn. In 2003, the mill was struck by lightning during an open day. In 2005, it was reported that repairs costing £70,000 were needed. An appeal to local residents for support in raising money towards the repair of the mill was generally ignored, despite leafletting every house in Stansted Mountfitchet.
The above information obtained courtesy of Wikipedia