Mill writing

Jack Windmill loses a Sweep

October 26 2009 by Sussex Miller (1338 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 (750 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 (731 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 (2796 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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VERDI Launch Report

October 01 2009 by Carole Leith (1061 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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Oldland Mill Granary Reprieve

September 12 2009 by Philip Hicks (879 views)
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I was pleased to hear that the Oldland mill granary conversion application was turned down on Thursday night. It was very close and we seemed to be losing until the very end when there was a surprise turn around. …

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Coles-Finch Bargain?

August 07 2009 by Russell Jones (1097 views)
Publications & Watermills & Windmills | 1 comment

Windmill and Watermill enthusiasts may be interested to see that there is reprinted copy of Watermills and Windmills by William Coles Finch for sale on Ebay

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Snuff Mills

June 29 2009 by William Hill (1067 views)
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Nice stuff on 2 Dutch snuff mills. The image is of a millstone used for milling spices, at De Ster snuff and spice mill in Rotterdam.

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Kodachrome RIP

June 23 2009 by Ron Cookson (1060 views)
Archive & Watermills & Windmills | 4 comments

Kodak have just announced they are discontinuing Kodachrome colour film. The Daily Telegraph "Digital cameras kill Kodachome slides" quotes the company as saying customers prefer to capture images with newer technology

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Mill gets sails of the 21st century

June 22 2009 by William Hill (1074 views)
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One of Somerset's most unique windmills has had its sails repaired following a two-year wait.

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