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A brick tower mill with a hand-winding wheel, built in 1826 on the site of a post mill. Last worked by wind in 1933, and used auxiliary power until 1948. Restored to workable order 2013.
What's Holland without a windmill. This one even appears in a Rembrandt painting!
The interesting this is that they're not really for power, they're used to pump water. Indeed, from this windmill we actually could look up and see a nearby river (yikes!).
Pitstone Windmill near Tring and Ivinghoe herts. This is a photograph I took of a local windmill in the the Pitstone, Tring Ivanhoe area of herts, I have passed it many times but decided to try out my new camera. I plan on visiting the windmill again in order to shoot it at wither sunrise or sunset, I think that a pink golden sky would blend in well with the mill.
The Pitstone windmill one of the oldest remaining windmills in UK, it is thought the windmill was built around 1627 so it porbably looked a lot different when it was first contructed.
Ballycopeland Windmill is the only working windmill in east Down. it was built in the late 1800s and also now features a visitor centre where you can try your hand at milling.
Llynnon Windmill, which is now a tourist attraction with a tea room. There are also two replica roundhouses on site
One of several old windmills on the hills above the Aegean coast of Turkey. Photographed during a summer holiday in 1995. Scanned from a transparency.
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.
A fully functional windmill that was imported and re-built. They use it to grind flour that they sell in the village.
Minolta Maxxum 7, Minolta 24-105mm D lens, Kodak Ektar 100. Summer 2014.
The Grade II listed 19th century windmill was built in 1826. A brick tower, boat-shaped cap and endless-chain winding used to turn the sails into the wind. This was a typical Warwickshire tower milland was used for making flour and animal feed. Later in its life (1927) it was adapted to run off an engine rather than by wind, and was actually used during World War II for horse feed. It was a working facility until its last miller John Hammond died in 1948.
After that it fell into ruin until it was acquired in the 1970s by a couple who restored it. I actually remember it being done as I was working on the milk round in the area at the time during my summer holidays. After they died, it again was left to rot until it was purchased again four years ago.
Originally posted for the GWUK group.