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A windy evening and a passing storm had the windmills working tonight. I shot this with the vintage Helios 4402 50mm lens.
Woodchurch Windmill is a fine example of a four-storey kentish smock mill on a single-storey brick base with a Kentish-style cap and winded by a fantail.
Photo © Jeremy Sage
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!
Built in the early 1700s, this is the sole remaining Windmill on the Isle of Wight.
22nd October 2017.
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..
Windlmills on the Kruisvest in Bruges. www.xplorengo.com/eng/europe/Belgium/westflanders/bruges/...
Windmolens op de Kruisvest in Brugge. www.xplorengo.com/ned/europa/Belgie/west-vlaanderen/brugg...
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.
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 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).