Something a little bit different, might interest some.
Ive always had a fascination with windmills since I was a kid, brought up in Sussex we was surrounded by them.
I've explored two windmills in my lifetime, the first being Stone Cross windmill (Eastbourne) when I was about 14, a rotton old tower mill full of rats, happy to say its now beautifully restored, and although is hidden behind a housing estate it is a well known landmark around the Eastbourne area.
The second Windmill was a few years back, not such a predominant figure this one and easily missed, in fact most passed it to go and visit some old Jags rotting away in a field
This particular mill is known as a New Mill...
New Mill is a Grade II listed post mill at Cross in Hand near Heathfield, East Sussex, England. It was the last windmill working commercially by wind in Sussex, ceasing work by wind in 1969 when a stock broke.
Built 1855 in Framfield and moved to Cross in Hand in 1868 this was a four sail round house corn mill.
Post mill history:
The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.
The earliest post mills in England are thought to have been built in the 12th century. The earliest working post mill in England still used today is to be found at Outwood, Surrey. It was built in 1665. The earliest remaining example of a non-operational mill can be found in Great Gransden in Cambridgeshire, built in 1612. Their design and usage peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries and then declined after the introduction of high-speed steam-driven milling machinery. Many still exist today, primarily to be found in Northern Europe and Great Britain. The term peg mill or peg and post mill (in which the "post" was the tailpole used to turn the mill into the wind) was used in north west England, and stob mill in north east England, to describe mills of this type.
Post mills dominated the scene in Europe until the 19th century when tower mills began to replace them. The advantage of the tower mill over the earlier post mill is that it is not necessary to turn the whole mill ("body", "buck") with all its machinery into the wind; this allows more space for the machinery as well as for storage.
And as it is today.
It turns out that windmills are extremely hard to photograpgh inside.
Grain shute
Great Spur wheel
Break wheel
Following inspection by a millwright in 2015, a crowdfunding appeal was launched to raise £3,000 for emergency repairs to the trestle. When the appeal closed on 8 June, £1,654 had been raised.[5] The Mills Archive Trust also opened an appeal, allowing people to donate by cheque, with the added benefit of being able to increase their donations by 25% via Gift Aid. A total in excess of £7,000 was raised by the two appeals. Initial work to strengthen the trestle was scheduled to be completed in October 2015
Hopefully one day this will be restored
Ive always had a fascination with windmills since I was a kid, brought up in Sussex we was surrounded by them.
I've explored two windmills in my lifetime, the first being Stone Cross windmill (Eastbourne) when I was about 14, a rotton old tower mill full of rats, happy to say its now beautifully restored, and although is hidden behind a housing estate it is a well known landmark around the Eastbourne area.
The second Windmill was a few years back, not such a predominant figure this one and easily missed, in fact most passed it to go and visit some old Jags rotting away in a field
This particular mill is known as a New Mill...
New Mill is a Grade II listed post mill at Cross in Hand near Heathfield, East Sussex, England. It was the last windmill working commercially by wind in Sussex, ceasing work by wind in 1969 when a stock broke.
Built 1855 in Framfield and moved to Cross in Hand in 1868 this was a four sail round house corn mill.
Post mill history:
The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.
The earliest post mills in England are thought to have been built in the 12th century. The earliest working post mill in England still used today is to be found at Outwood, Surrey. It was built in 1665. The earliest remaining example of a non-operational mill can be found in Great Gransden in Cambridgeshire, built in 1612. Their design and usage peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries and then declined after the introduction of high-speed steam-driven milling machinery. Many still exist today, primarily to be found in Northern Europe and Great Britain. The term peg mill or peg and post mill (in which the "post" was the tailpole used to turn the mill into the wind) was used in north west England, and stob mill in north east England, to describe mills of this type.
Post mills dominated the scene in Europe until the 19th century when tower mills began to replace them. The advantage of the tower mill over the earlier post mill is that it is not necessary to turn the whole mill ("body", "buck") with all its machinery into the wind; this allows more space for the machinery as well as for storage.
And as it is today.
It turns out that windmills are extremely hard to photograpgh inside.
Grain shute
Great Spur wheel
Break wheel
Following inspection by a millwright in 2015, a crowdfunding appeal was launched to raise £3,000 for emergency repairs to the trestle. When the appeal closed on 8 June, £1,654 had been raised.[5] The Mills Archive Trust also opened an appeal, allowing people to donate by cheque, with the added benefit of being able to increase their donations by 25% via Gift Aid. A total in excess of £7,000 was raised by the two appeals. Initial work to strengthen the trestle was scheduled to be completed in October 2015
Hopefully one day this will be restored
