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We found this windmill near a millitary barracks in a park in Denmark. Shortly after I took this pohoto and armed soldier asked us to get off the grass and exit the area. Maybe this Windmill is actually a front for a torture room!
Ashton Windmill near Chapel Allerton at dawn.
This was meant to be a photo of Burnham Lighthouse but it was far too cold and windy, so we went here instead!?
Spotted this windmill behind a housing estate in Skerries.There is a second one there also but the gate was closed so I couldn't enter the grounds.
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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.
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.
Windmill at Kinderdijk, a small village in South Holland, famous with its 18th century windmills used to prevent flooding in polder. In 1997, 19 of Kinderdijk Windmills were declared to be UNESCO World Heritage. Built around 1740 as part of large water management system, these 19 windmills are still standing. The scene in Kinderdijk is amazing in the early morning or just before sunset.
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.
Beside the church at the monastery of Celic Dere is an old wooden windmill that dates from the 19th Century.
Wilton Windmill stands high above the small village of Wilton, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, on a site that provides magnificent views of the surrounding hills.
The mill is the only working windmill in Wessex and was originally constructed in 1821 after the new Kennet and Avon canal had been built.