Mill News: New sweeps installed for the 200-year-old windmill at Herstmonceux. (Sussex Express)
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While you're in Windmill Lane for the flower sale, don't forget that it is named after Grinstead Common windmill (photo), which stood just opposite. It's National Mills Weekend, so why not explore some of our nearby surviving wind and water mills? Fantastic reminders of our past.
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The charmingly named Windmill Hill Windmill is the largest post mill in the UK, dating to 1814.
Visit your nearest mill this weekend to celebrate #NationalMillsWeekend
#visitsussex #sussex
📸 Windmill Hill Trust
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Drumroll please... The #NationalMillsWeekend 2023 video is here! 🎬
Huge thanks to Martyn Taylor & everyone involved in creating this packed programme 👏
*Please note that the tours of Kibworth Harcourt Mill mentioned at the start are now fully booked*
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Those thin quarter-bars in the trestle of Nutley Windmill always concern me. Open trestle mills mostly seem to have had double quarter bars. This weekend is National Mills Weekend, when many historic windmills and watermills will be open to the public. tinyurl.com/mwx2eaze
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. news reporting this morning that Nutley Windmill on Ashdown Forest has received the funding required to repair the mill, and work will commence in June.
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Two historic Cambridgeshire windmills restored to their former glory. tinyurl.com/2eus8jze (Cambridge Independent)
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Mill News: Heage Windmill has been officially reopened to visitors after the winter, but major repairs are planned. tinyurl.com/ycxerdc4 (Derbyshire Times)
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Eleven years ago today we visited a beautiful Mid-Sussex windmill. Not Jack & Jill on the nearby Downs this time, but the less well-known Oldland Mill, on the Greensand Ridge between Hassocks and Ditchling. Very close to the border, but just on the Mid-Sussex side I think.
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Mill News: Sail falls off Blackpool's Grade II listed Little Marton Windmill. tinyurl.com/3nmc9954 (BBC News)
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Please help restore Nutley windmill, see
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The Nutley windmill enjoying some well-deserved early evening sunshine - To quote Mr, Harrison "Little darlin', it feels like years since it's been here"
@SussexBloggers
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Our village's windmill in the Ashdown Forest this morning with a smattering of snow on it.
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In the Press: Liverpool's lost windmills and what stands there today. tinyurl.com/43txkama (Liverpool Echo)
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Our village's windmill enjoying the late afternoon sunshine. Still no sails on her.
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Peter Chapman at Sarre smock mill in Kent. 1980s.
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My stepfather, life-long EG resident Peter Chapman, died this day in 1996. A founder member of the Bluebell Railway Preservation and East Grinstead Model Engineering societies. Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. Built and drove model trains. Shared my interest in mills.
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Looks like it. Rebuilt in recent years.
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Ashcombe near Kingston? @UKwindmills
And here's a couple of results. One of them is 13 minutes of exposures* but not probably not that obvious?
*= yes it was quite chilly 🥶😋
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We note the disused windmill from our account (perhaps more or less contemporary with the slide) in vol. 4 of VCH Buckinghamshire (1927), available : british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4
British History Online also has the Royal Commission volume (1913): british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vo
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Quniton, Bucks.
Occasional photos from the CRLH Slide Collections. #CRLHPics
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Mills Abroad: Preservation work begins on Davidson Windmill. tinyurl.com/39mmxejv (Superior Telegram)
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We note the disused windmill from our account (perhaps more or less contemporary with the slide) in vol. 4 of VCH Buckinghamshire (1927), available @bho_history: british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4
British History Online also has the Royal Commission volume (1913): british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vo
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As the Great War (WW1) is on people's minds today, here's a postcard sent by Sapper Will Chapman to his home in East Grinstead, while on active service in 1916. It shows Le Moulin des Pauvres at Mont-des-Cats on the French/Belgian border.
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"Having never set foot in a flour mill, it was a surprise to find how intuitive it is: the grumbles and groans tell you if it's running too fast or slow, if the grind is too coarse..."
#SPABFellow Owen Bushell - this year's #Millwrighting Fellow - recounts his experiences... 🧵
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A free-to-download research report tinyurl.com/2p8e6net for #millsmonday on #Kibworth Harcourt #Postmill. How #Dendrochronology & #Radiocarbon provide precise dating to inform #Conservation of our #windmills.
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Mill News: Historic Sleaford mill to start producing flour for town's food bank. tinyurl.com/mr474ksj (Lincolnshire Live)
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Nutley Windmill (Ashdown Forest) two years ago today. In the past virtually every town had its own windmills or watermills, some dating from centuries before the industrial revolution. East Grinstead had both. Using clean renewable energy isn't a new idea, it's a very old one.
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Sad that one can't post a tweet of historical interest without prejudging it and giving an unnecessary warning.
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Mills Abroad: Efforts underway to bring ancient windmill back to life. tinyurl.com/yh5ew4tc (Tehran Times)
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A report in "The Ecologist" refers to "experimental technologies, such as tidal power," but the Romans were using tidal power in England almost 2,000 years ago. I think we can safely say that it's passed the experimental stage. We have the second-largest tidal range in the world.
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I remember the Thomas brothers at Outwood windmill, a couple of real characters. There were two mills side-by-side there, a post mill and a smock mill, but the smock mill collapsed around 1960. Here's at Outwood post mill (late 70s?). Sorry Jan! 😉
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#OnThisDay in 1988: Visiting Outwood Windmill, Britain's oldest working windmill, in Surry, had Blue Peter presenter Mark Curry spinning – literally!
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