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Transfer of Windmill or Watermill Technology

May 30 2009 by Torben Jenk (USA) (1281 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 (817 views)
Windmills | Leave a comment

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 (1257 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 (1566 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 (1117 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 (1371 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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History of the Tornado Windmill Co

May 18 2009 by William Hill (1341 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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What about setting up a Kent Mills Group?

April 26 2009 by Ron Cookson (3723 views)
Kent & Research & Watermills & Windmills | 13 comments

Kent has an amazing milling heritage and various Kent mills-related events and research interests have surfaced recently. Surely the time is ripe to consider (re)forming a regional mill group to cover Kent? Certainly the Mills Archive would offer tangible support …

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Should you belong to a Mills Group?

April 20 2009 by Ron Cookson (1238 views)
Watermills & Windmills | 5 comments

Even in my short acquaintance with mills, I have seen Groups come and go, so is there any point to them? Recently the group in Kent (of all places!) folded because no-one would continue the good work carried on for …

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Shipley Windmill Set to Close

April 05 2009 by William Hill (1542 views)
News of Mills & Windmills | 1 comment

Jim Woodward-Nutt is reported in the Sussex Express as stating that the Shipley Windmill Trust will have to hand back the mill to their landlord

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