Mill writing

Jack Windmill loses a Sweep

October 26 2009 by Sussex Miller (1839 views)
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Paul Barber reports that the efforts taken by Jack And Jill Windmills Society in replacing a stock on Jill windmill in 2007 are justified by the recent damage to Jack windmill.

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Beware!!! Scrap of thieves!!!

October 26 2009 by Jonathan McGuinness (1052 views)
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Last week, North Leverton mill fell victim to theft of valuable items from the mill. Two sets of sail shackles, one pair of stump irons, a spider crank, one forked sail rod, a quant for the French stones including a …

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2012 Olympics and Heritage

October 22 2009 by Ron Cookson (1001 views)
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Could Mills benefit from this latest HLF announcment? If you have a project in mind that could have an Olympic connection it is worth reading on!

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Wind turbine blade snaps off UPDATE

October 10 2009 by Ron Cookson (3676 views)
Electricity Generation & Windmills | 3 comments

Simon Potter and Tim Chapman have helped me update the news item that originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 10 October, reporting that strong winds had broken a blade of a 190 ft wind turbine at Catcliffe near …

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Greenwich – early Medieval Tide Mill

October 06 2009 by David Plunkett (1081 views)
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“Last summer digging through 3.5m of riverside mud at Greenwich in London, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a huge timber watermill of the 12th century. The wheel, part of which survived, would have been more than 5m across."

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VERDI Launch Report

October 01 2009 by Carole Leith (1420 views)
Kent & Events & Windmills | 4 comments

As from September 2009 the University of Kent at Canterbury have made available online thousands more images from their resources. The Versatile Digitisation Framework project [VERDI] was funded under the Enriching Digital Resources strand of the JISC Digitisation Progamme. …

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