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Transfer of Windmill or Watermill Technology

May 30 2009 by Torben Jenk (USA) (1620 views)
Research & Mills outside the UK & Watermills & Windmills | 1 comment

What evidence is there for transatlantic technology transfer as far as mill construction is concerned?

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Mills at Harby, Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire

May 30 2009 by Leslie Cram (1113 views)
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Information on mills at Harby in Leicestershre can be found on my website

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Fire in the Mill?

May 30 2009 by Philip Hicks (1563 views)
Research & Windmills | 4 comments

How many windmills had interior fireplaces? Do any still exist?

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Any Hampshire Windmill Experts out there?

May 27 2009 by Ron Cookson (2214 views)
Research & Windmills | 4 comments

Did HES Simmons make mistakes? We posted this image on the eBay site recently describing it as Wicor Mill Porchester. The owner of the mill has pointed out it is the mill in his garden and Wicor mill is down …

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Mystery Windmill

May 24 2009 by Fred Atkins (1445 views)
Windmills | 2 comments

A friend of mine found an interesting CD-Rom at a local boot fair which consisted of several hundred photos of old postcards - mostly Kent plus some of Sussex.

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Wind farm ‘kills Taiwanese goats’

May 21 2009 by Cogito (1747 views)
Electricity Generation & Mills outside the UK & Windmills | 2 comments

The BBC (Asia-Pacific News) reports A large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm.

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Norse Mills of Lewis - A New Book

May 18 2009 by Ron Cookson (1201 views)
News of Mills & Publications & Watermills | 2 comments

Finlay Macleod has completed his book on the Norse mills of Lewis and the publishers hope to have it available at the end of June. Finlay has written an introduction to the book - certainly worth a look!

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History of the Tornado Windmill Co

May 18 2009 by William Hill (2344 views)
Mills outside the UK & TIMS & Windmills | Leave a comment

In the latest set of links to news items, an interesting history of the Tornado Windmill Company in New York State from its founding in 1874 attracted my attention

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