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I was so excited to be in Sweden, though, so I took photos on the bus. Not too many of them turned out too great, & I ended up getting good pictures of Helsingborg later on anyway.
The first of the windmills in the Rural Museum is probably the rarest in the town - a Plavia windmill manufactured by van Gelder of Sydney in the late 1920s. An interesting variation on the then-new Savonius design, this vertical axis windmill transmits the sails' motion into vertical oscillation for pumping through a simple bevel gear.
A sign reads:
Plavia Windmill
Origin & age unknown
Believed to be the only one in Australia
Donated by M.F.Neilsen
Chesterton, Warwickshire (September 08).
There is a lovely view from the windmill over the rolling countryside, which is especially nice at sunset.
Celebrating the areas Dutch heritage, the town of Fulton, IL is home to one of two working Dutch windmills in the US. This windmill was constructed using traditional methods, e.g. wooden pegs rather than mechanical fasteners, in the Netherlands and shipped to the US where it was assembled.
Windmill 'De Bommelaer', a corn mill, dates from 1738, still containing original parts of an earlier windmill from the period 1620-163 on the exact same location. Found in the small village of Den Bommel on the island of Goeree-Overflakke in the Netherlands.
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Denver windmill near Downham Market, Norfolk, built in 1835 with six storeys. A steam mill was added later.
The final stop on a weekend tour of eight mills by the committee of Holgate Windmill, York.
16 August 2009
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THis was taken near a hill that looked over the (then) new stadium soon to be home to the 2006 World Cup.