Mill writing

Sails from telegraph poles

January 11 2009 by Adam Marriott (1147 views)
Windmills | 1 comment

The Mills Archive picture of Foston windmill in their newly relased Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/millsarchive/ shows a mill whose sails I have always liked

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Jon Sass once told me the miller made them himself out of telegraph poles from the nearby A1 which were being changed at the time. i wonder if there was any advantage of mixing springs and commons, maybe save a bit of weight? (comment lifted from Ron Cookson's Facebook album "Archive Photos on Flickr")

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Thu, January 15, 2009

Jon Sass has responded to this post with a lot more information. For technical reasons we will introduce his comments to Mill Writing as a new item "Foston Windmill" http://www.millsarchivetrust.org/index.php/blogs/more/foston_windmill/

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