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Kinderdijk is a village about 9 miles east of Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is situated in the Alblasserwaard polder at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands and one of the best known Dutch tourist sites.
This windmill is in storage, waiting for a better place. The original location near the A4 motorway wasn't suitable anymore. The windmill dates from 1684.
Second windmill in Hull. Its building caused much consternation in nearby Hingham (because of the 'view'), which only made me like it all the more. How can you not like renewable energy coupled with upsetting Hinghamites?
Ethnographic Open Air Museum
Farmsteads, windmills, fishing huts, churches and other historic structures were moved to the 100-hectare forest to be preserved for posterity. Some are from as far back as the 17th Century...
One of Alberta's secret is that we do have a windmill museum. Who'da thunk it? It is located at Etzikom, a tiny community in Southern Alberta. Blink, and you miss it. However, they do have a very nice display of old wind mills on their grounds, those that meant saving labour on the farm. On the webside we read "Located on the Red Coat Trail, is the Etzikom Museum and the Canadian National Historic Windmill Centre. The Centre features outdoor restored examples of windmills encompassing over 200 years of Canadian wind power (particularly water pumpers)."
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Winding through the windmills.
Geneva, Illinois. 2012. An authentic working, Dutch windmill used in the 1850's. In 1979, the windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It originally operated as a custom grinding mill.
Windmill 'De Korenaar', built in 1746 in Stad aan het Haringvliet, a village on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee in the Netherlands.
Back in September I went on a photo trip with my Aunt. We drove around the scenic countryside of Chatsworth and area. I was on the hunt for some windmills
This was taken near Edam, not too far north of Amsterdam. This windmill grinds ingredients for paint dyes.
It was wet and windy most of the day.
A really old feeling to this windmill we passed through sheep's country. One could easily imagine seeing a disgruntled knight in rust-spotted armor charging it
Chesterton Windmill is a 17th-century cylindric stone tower windmill with an arched base, located outside the village of Chesterton, Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building and a striking landmark in South-East Warwickshire.
The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton for nearly 350 years. It is near the Roman Fosse Way and about five miles (8 km) south-east of Warwick. It was built around 1632-1633, probably by Sir Edward Peyto, who was Lord of the Chesterton Manor House. At this time John Stone, a pupil of Inigo Jones, was in Chesterton designing the new Manor House and he probably helped with the windmill as well. Sir Edward was a Mathematician and Astrologer and probably his own architect to the windmill, but although claims have been made that the tower was originally built as an observatory, the estate accounts now at Warwick Record Office show that it has always been a windmill, making it the earliest tower mill in England to retain any of its working parts.