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It looks like one can find a windmill at every corner in Amsterdam. I found this one while biking around the canals.
After doing some research, I learned that it was the tallest wooden windmill in the Netherlands. Like most of them, it is not in use anymore, but still looks quite magestic.
Yes, people actually live in some of these historic windmills in Kinderdijk. Apparently, it's a sought-after privilege to live there, and the tenant must be trained and commit to keeping the sails moving a certain number of hours each day.
It was a gray, drizzly day when we visited Kinderdijk, but near the end of our tour a bit of blue sky peeked through the clouds.
I've been culling and re-editing images to submit to Adobe Stock, and this one made the cut!
Pirogovo, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
Some background information:
Originally Pirogovo used to be a village about 30 km south of the Ukrainian capital city Kiev. But nowadays the territory of historic Pirogovo serves as the location of an outdoor museum of folk architecture and life of the Ukraine. The museum, which was founded in 1969, comprises 370 acres of land and contains over 300 carefully reassembled buildings of folk architecture brought here from all parts of Ukraine.
Those buildings include commoner's homes, houses of small trade, commerce and local administration, old wooden village churches and windmills. They contain authentic items that represent the everyday lifestyle of Ukrainian villagers and townsfolk. Dressed in old-style clothes local volunteers and modern Ukrainian artisans sell their wares there and demonstrate the use of authentic everyday items to the visitors.
Pirogovo museum has been accorded the status of State Museum of Ukraine and is affiliated with the Institute of Arts, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
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Great Haseley Windmill
Another one from the little Fuji XT-2 and the 10-24mm.
My first visit to this location been meaning to go for a while now. So went last Friday evening although the forecast didn't look promising but at least I thought I can scout the location out.
But as I often say to my darling wife you never know.
And I got some lovely light for all of 2 minutes to get this shot.
this was the last shot of the day ... and i headed home.
the colors and light were just plain gorgeous that day... wish i'd been a better boy scout that day and been prepared. i could have stayed around longer if i'd had another battery.
One from a cold and windy day in Norfolk back in April.
Cley Windmill is a grade II listed tower mill at Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, England which has been converted to residential accommodation and is now a rather nice B&B.
Former windmill. Now an exclusive private home in Sandhurst, Kent, UK, close to the border with East Sussex.
Stansted Windmill is a grade II* listed ancient monument given to the people of Stansted by Lord Blyth in 1934. A classic example of a tower mill, Stansted Windmill is close to unique in having most of its original machinery with few replaced components.
The famous windmills of Kinderdijk rise high above the polder landscape of Alblasserwaard, their mighty sails proudly facing the wind. Still, these historical giants are just a small part of an enormous joint venture of people, nature, and technology. A thousand years ago, this whole area was one big peat bog, trapped between raging rivers and the fury of the sea. Hunters and fishermen came here only in summer, if the water levels were low enough..
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 flour 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 122 lb (about 51 kg ) of flour every 3 to 5 minutes (depending on the wind speed).
The windmill
Is a spinning wheel
A massive metal flower
Threading breezes
Through her petals
Whirling hour by hour
Dizzy dancing
Day and night
A turning churning tower
Whisking winds
from all directions
Spinning air to power.
Set of early (01.30) in the hope the clouds would shift to allow a shot or 2 of the milky way but alas it wasn't to be. So opted to get a few snaps of our retired windwill at bembridge
The Iconic Whitburn Windmill situated on the Coast Road in Whitburn Sunderland. The earliest known records of a mill on this site date back to a 1779 coastal shipping survey, which shows a post mill in Whitburn. A post mill was the earliest form of windmill, in which all the grinding machinery and grain stores were supported by a central vertical post. The miller would have had to turn the whole mill around so that the sails faced into the wind.