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At Bembridge Windmill on the Isle of Wight.
I love the marks of use on this wheel, as well as the odd woodworm holes. Clearly a long and well used piece of equipment.
Paid my first visit to Chesterton Windmill last weekend. What a lovely spot I didn't get the sunrise I wanted, this is a bit of a cliche shot but for some reason I do like it.
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 current building was built around 1800 and continued working as a flour mill until about 1875.[1] After falling into disuse the windmill and the land, on which it stands, was purchased by Birkenhead Corporation and restored from 1894.
Bidston,Wirral
Constructed around a central post so that it can be turned to face into the wind, this impressive postmill was built in the 18th century and is the only complete windmill left in the county.
The mill operated commercially, mostly grinding cattle feed, until 1939. It was purchased and restored in 1951 by Bedfordshire County Council, as part of the County's contribution to the Festival of Britain.
Stevington Mill was probably the last windmill in Britain working with four common (cloth covered) sails, which were replaced in 1958 and again in 2004, the latter after a seven year absence. the sails are turned periodically and the machinery, though requiring constant maintenance, is in rough working order.
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
Chesterton Windmill landscape with a tone mapped hdr effect created in photomatix software
3 bracketed images final edit done in LR6 and photoshop
The Kinderdijk UNESCO World Heritage site is a unique icon of Dutch water management and control.
Although this pic would not win an originality price, these windmills should be on any photographer's bucket list...
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”, which was destroyed in 1791 during a gale which caused the sails to break loose and revolve at such a speed that the friction caused the machinery to ignite!
It was succeeded by this brick-built tower mill and was used to grind corn to flour for 75 years. The mill was built in the year 1800 and although access to its facilities caused no end of problems for cart drivers, it was ideally placed to catch the wind. The windmill could produce 122 lb (50.84 kg ) of flour every 3 to 5 minutes (depending on the wind speed).
In this style of mill the top or ‘cap’ can be rotated through 360° so the sails could be moved to follow the direction of the wind. On the back of the mill you can see the large wooden chain-wheel, which was used to slowly turn the roof around using a rack and gear system. The last miller to work the mill was Mr Youds. Although safety concerns were not as important in the 1800s as they are today, the windmill did have one important safety feature: an extra door! This prevented millers walking out of the mill into the rapidly turning sails (60 miles an hour on a good day).
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.
Our visit to the Kinderdijk Windmills featured typical Dutch weather, though we've been quite lucky during the trip to have sunny warm days so far. There are 17 functioning windmills here; though the real job of pumping the water out into the river is done by modern pumps, the windmills are maintained in working condition by the families that live in them. The sails are rotated ~60,000 cycles per year just to be sure that everything still works since this is a huge tourism draw in the area and a UNESCO Heritage World Site.