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The Windmills (Kato Milli) - Mykonos windmills, are a short walk from the town center and one of the must-see attractions in the area.
October 7, 2012 - I was trekking through the small town of El Paso Colorado, and stumbled across a home that had numerous windmills as yard decorations. The lady of the house, Penny, was quite gracious in allowing me on to her property and phtograph these wonderful windmills. Penny told me tha ther Dad, who was 80+ years old, collected these windmills over the years, and spent his time restoring them. Now they are on display (fully functional I might add) on the property. This is a shot of an old Planttner Yale windmill.
The Fabyan windmill, 2006, recently restored. Created of ancient timbers, it is one of the most intact examples of its kind.
This windmill is the oldest on Cape Cod. It has resided in several places during its life but it was built in Plymouth in 1680 (by Thomas Paine of Eastham) and moved to Eastham in 1793. It arrived at its current location in 1808. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and if you visit Eastham in September, you might be in time for the annual Windmill Weekend. The windmill is still in working condition. Given the ambient wind in this part of Cape Cod, a windmill was a good choice for the location.
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 I listed building and a striking landmark in South-East Warwickshire.
The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton for nearly 350 years. It is near the Roman Fosse Way and about five miles (8 km) south-east of Warwick. It was built around 1632-1633, probably by Sir Edward Peyto, who was Lord of the Chesterton Manor House. At this time John Stone, a pupil of Inigo Jones, was in Chesterton designing the new Manor House and he probably helped with the windmill as well. Sir Edward was a Mathematician and Astrologer and probably his own architect to the windmill, but although claims have been made that the tower was originally built as an observatory, the estate accounts now at Warwick Record Office show that it has always been a windmill, making it the earliest tower mill in England to retain any of its working parts.
Tower mill, 1821, by or for J.Gale. Restored 1971-6. Header bond brickwork. Rivetted sheet aluminium hemispherical cap. Five- storeys. Braced timber gallery of 1971-6 replacing original roundhouse. Ground floor; opposed doors and timber round headed windows throughout. 2 common and 2 patent sails, latter with 21 shades and leading boards. Iron spider. Six-blade fantail with external worm and cograck. Striking gear and chain set below fantail frame. Interior: Iron vertical shaft, brake wheel and spur wheel, the brake wheel with hardwood cogs. Band brake. Two pairs underdriven stones, 1 pair French burrs, 1 pair greys. Separate bevel gear drive to sack hoist and lay shaft to wire machine on first floor. Manual stone lifting gear. All sails and machinery restored and in working order, the only complete windmill in Wiltshire and probably on the site of an earlier post mill. EH Listing
"Photographs of windmills in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London."
From a book I have published in 1932 by The Architectural Press on behalf of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Copyright belongs either to SPAB or Elsevier (successor to The Architectural Press), but I been informed by both organisations that the images are free to use for non-profit use by those interested in the study of mills.
Jill is a post mill which caught fire in the 1987 hurricane as its brake gave up the ghost and the sails spun round too fast
Jack and Jill windmills, South Downs, Sussex
A marvelous old Texas windmill along Highway 7, a product of the Baker Mfg Co.
Baker began in 1872 with the designing of a rotary steam engine by Allen S. Baker and Levi Shaw. Mr. Baker took the design to a Milwaukee firm to be built and the tests looked promising. the Baker Manufacturing Company (founded in 1873 in Evansville, WI) was a well-known maker of windmills, most famously under the Monitor brand. From 1873 to 1876 the Company increased its capital from $6,000 to $12,500. During this period a new foundry was built and the company began the manufacture of iron pumps and wooden windmills, designed and tested by Allen Baker. By 1876, newspapers carried ads for "Monitor" windmills, a trade name still used today.The 1880's saw a growth in physical facilities so that by 1882, the Baker Company consisted of a machine shop, a foundry, a wood department, a paint department and a blacksmith shop. There were forty men on the payroll. In addition to producing and shipping windmills at the rate of seventy per month, rotary feed grinders and wood saws were manufactured. LE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM of fame and fortune is grasped by many in many different ways. For six men in Evansville, Wisconsin, it was to take the shape of the A. S. Baker Company. Their vision of one hundred twenty years ago became the forerunner of the Baker Manufacturing Company which through the years has marketed such a diversity and variety of products as water systems components, gasoline engines, walking and acrobatic toys, hydrofoil boats, an anti-aircraft lead computing sight, an average protractor for matching aircraft propeller blades and scientific instruments.
Photo of the windmill on the promenade at Lytham.
Lytham Windmill, built in 1805, is situated on Lytham Green in the coastal town of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. It is of the type known as a tower mill and was designed for grinding wheat and oats to make flour or bran. Since commercial milling on the site ceased in 1921 the mill has belonged to the town and is operated by Fylde Borough Council, who open it to the public during the summer. The mill also contains a museum run by the Lytham Heritage Trust which explains the history and practice of flour milling.
In 1951 the mill was designated a grade II listed building.
Visiting Halnaker Tower Windmill near Chichester, West Sussex, June 2008. Photograph by Justin Brice.