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The Mill was built shortly after 1807 by the father of 19th-century mathematical physicist George Green. It is located on the site of a previous post mill and there were at least two other mills on Windmill Lane in Sneinton.[1] In 1829 his father died and George Green inherited the mill and operated it until his death in 1841.
The mill was still in use until the 1860s, after which it was abandoned and gradually fell into disrepair. In 1923 a copper cap was fitted at the top to make the building watertight and this survived until a fire destroyed it in 1947.
The mill was derelict until it was acquired by Nottingham City Council in 1979. Funds were raised and it was renovated by Thompson's, millwrights of Alford, Lincolnshire in 1984 - 86. It was reopened on 2 December 1986 and is now part of a science centre which is open to the public. At the same time, No 3, Green's Gardens was restored from near dereliction by the Nottingham Buildings Preservations Trust as a residence for one of the Museum staff.
The tower seen in the right side was built in 1961 as a lighthouse having observation decks. It is always one of symbols of the port of Yokohama, although it emits light to ships no longer.
The Swan windmill at Windmill Island Gardens in Holland, MI. See full story at www.cafeyak.com/holland.html
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 1 listed building and a striking landmark in South-East Warwickshire.
Built as a seven-storeyed windmill in 1837 by the well-known local millwright John Oxley the mill belonged to a group of four windmills and is the sole survivor today.
Alford Windmill is a seven-storeyed Lincolnshire type tower windmill with a stage - featuring a slender, tapering brick tower, tarred to keep the moisture out, covered with a white onion-shaped (ogee) cap with fan-stage, huge fantail, and white sails. She has five patent-shutter sails and originally three, later on four pair of stones (two pair of grey or peak stones (cut from rock found in the Peak District) and two French "quartzite" stones). The seven storeys are called: ground floor (contains a hurst frame with the engine-driven (from the outside) forth pair of (grey) stones), storage floor, spout (stage) floor (also called meal floor), stones floor (with the original three pairs of stones (one grey pair, two French pairs)), lower bin floor, upper bin floor (with the sack hoist), dust or cap floor (providing access to the inside of the cap)). The mill provides a flywheel at the mill's base connected by pulley to a town gas driven engine in the adjacent shed. This engine makes the mill independent of wind if it is insufficient to drive the sailcross. In its heyday Alford Mill was capable of grinding 4 to 5 tonnes of corn a day.
Windmills are everywhere in the Netherlands. It is used to pump underground water back to the sea. This is required as much of the Netherlands is built on filled sea.
Amsterdam 2011
Weirdly, there was a dove just in the same spot as the evening belore / Seltsamerweise war da wieder eine Taube, am selben Platz wie am Vorabend.
The Veenhuizer Windmill (drain water) is located in Heerhugowaard (North-Holland), also know as Veenhuizen.
Arlington Heights, IL has a Christmas Display in a little park in the middle of their suburban city. For this photo, I combined four photos in HDR. I also had the camera on low ISO settings and closed the aperture to get the windmill to circle enough so you can see that effect. I love Christmas Lights. Even though it's challenging to shoot (not least of all because of the temperatures).
#suburbanlights #chicagoland #christmaslights
The island of Mallorca has many examples of windmills.
This one was one of the best examples, fully refurbished and unfortunately located on the middle of a roundabout. Not that you would believe it from this angle.
Someone asked for more windmill pictures, here you go. Another one taken at Zaanse Schans on a very wet and gloomy day, but at least it was dry (for about half an hour)
Captured at the ever growing Tow Law windmill site, Co. Durham.
This is especially for Carole to give her (hopefully) the incentive to try and get a photo of them (also so she stops taking bird photos and gives the rest of us a chance!)
On the walk down to the old town of mykonos, this windmill proved an attractive sight in the late afternoon sun.