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      <title>Mills on the Air, 2026</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item922.htm</link>
      <pubDate>6 May 2025 12:00 UT</pubDate>
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    The "air" referred to in the name "Mills on the Air" is not so much the moving air that makes up the wind that powers windmills,
    but rather refers to the airwaves over which radio travels.
    Thus
    
        &lt;a href="https://nharg.org.uk/content/about-mills-air-mota"&gt;Mills on the Air&lt;/a&gt; (MOTA)
    is an event where amateur radio operators run radio stations at mills throughout the UK, and indeed across the world.
    It takes place on National Mills Weekend, and thus this year is on 9th and 10th May, 2026.
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Whilst some of the radio stations may be set up inside the mills themselves,
      the more usual arrangement is for the radio simply to be operated from the vicinity of the mill.
      The mill itself may not actually be open as part of National Mills Weekend, or if it is,
      may well have different opening times than the operating time of the radio station.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      See 
        &lt;a href="https://nharg.org.uk/content/active-mota-stations-2026"&gt;the list of stations taking part in the event in 2026&lt;/a&gt;.
      When I last checked, there were 59 UK mills, and 40 spread across the rest of the world.
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      <title>Collection of 1930's photos</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item921.htm</link>
      <pubDate>6 May 26 12:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>
    A few years ago, Jan Smith purchased an album of windmill photos by an unknown photographer.
    She recently posted them on Windmill Hoppers, and has graciously allowed me to give them a permanent home here.

    
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        Image: [Duloe Mill, Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, Sept 32From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Tower mill, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, Sept 33From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Post mill, Keysoe, Bedfordshire, July 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Dean Mill, Lower Dean, Bedfordshire, April 32From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Post mill, Riseley, Bedfordshire, Aug 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Stevington Windmill, Stevington, Bedfordshire, Sept 33From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [West Mill, Tilbrook, Bedfordshire, Oct 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [West Mill, Tilbrook, Bedfordshire, Oct 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Tower mill, Upper Dean, Bedfordshire, Aug 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Post mill, Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire, Oct 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Tower mill, Morcott, Rutland, Dec 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
    
        Image: [Tower mill, South Luffenham, Rutland, Dec 35From a collection owned by Jan Smith]
        
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      <title>Mills open for National Mills Weekend, May 9th and 10th, 2026</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item920.htm</link>
      <pubDate>5 May 26 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>mills</category>
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      <description>
    In years gone by,
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.spab.org.uk/mills/national-mills-weekend-0"&gt;SPAB, who organize National Mills Weekend&lt;/a&gt;,
    published a comprehensive list of mills that were due to open over the weekend,
    in fact there was a whole website they dedicated to that information.
    However that website now appears to be owned by a cyber squatter, and although much of the mills info is still present,
    it is vastly out of date (last updated in 2018), and the site is set up to link to a casino.
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      The following is a far from comprehensive list of mills that I'm aware of that will be open for National Mills Weekend 2026.
      This information may be incorrect - please make your own local enquiries especially if travelling a long distance.
      Most of this information has come from the Facebook groups
      
        &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/windmillhoppers"&gt;Windmill Hoppers&lt;/a&gt;
      and 
        &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/427712580580461"&gt;Watermill Hoppers&lt;/a&gt;.
      
        &lt;ul&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;High Salvington windmill - open Sunday 10th, 14:30&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Finchingfield windmill - open Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th, 14:00 - 17:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Burwell windmill - open Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Ashdon windmill - open Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Toft Monks Wind Pump - open Saturday 9th, 11:00 - 15:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Bourn windmill - open Saturday 9th 14:00 - 16:30, Sunday 10th 11:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 16:30&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Ullesthorpe Windmill - open Sunday 10th, 11:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Polegate windmill - open Sunday 10th, 11:00 - 15:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;White mill, Sandwich - open Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Drapers mill, Margate - open Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th, 14:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Kibworth Harcourt windmill - open Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Upminster windmill - open Saturday 9th 10:00 - 16:00, Sunday 10th 11:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Northfield windmill, Soham - open Saturday 9th, 11:00 - 15:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Thaxted windmill - open Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 15:30&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Fosters mill, Swaffham Prior - open Sunday 10th, 14:00 - 17:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Smock mill, Swaffham Prior - grounds access Sunday 10th, 14:00 - 17:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Meopham windmill - open Sunday 10th, 13:30 - 16:30&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Danzey Green windmill, Avoncroft - open Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Wicken windmill - open Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th, reasonable hours!&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Lowfield Heath windmill - open Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th, 14:00 - 17:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Billingford windmill - open Saturday 9th, 13:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Berkswell Windmill - open Saturday 9th, 12:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Fulwell windmill - open Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Old Buckenham windmill - open Sunday 10th, 13:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Hough windmill, Swannington - open Sunday 10th, 14:00&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
      
        &lt;ul&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Ifield watermill - open Sunday 10th, 12:00 - 17:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Belper North Mill - open Sunday 10th, 11:00 - 15:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Tocketts mill, Cleveland - open Sunday 10th, 11:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Fladbury and Cropthorne Mills, Worcestershire - open Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th, 10:00 - 16:00&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;Ifield watermill - open Sunday 10th, 12:00 - 17:00&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      See also the list of mills open for Mills Weekend compiled by
      
        &lt;a href="https://www.midlandmills.org.uk/national-mills-open-weekend-2022/"&gt;The Midland Wind and Water Mills Group&lt;/a&gt;.
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      <title>Wind engine at the Wapping Hydraulic Pumping Station</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item919.htm</link>
      <pubDate>4 May 26 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windpumps</category>
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      <description>
    As an example of pretty lax journalism, Secret London has recently put up a
    
        &lt;a href="https://secretldn.com/go-east-vintage-wapping-power-station/"&gt;couple&lt;/a&gt; of
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/SecretLDN/posts/pfbid02GskH4jKEAAQ5WikWNg6PMsY4NDFeSTZ5mioQtx9Mod9mk9otfkbKJVKhmPoxwd1ml"&gt;posts&lt;/a&gt;
    about flea markets being held at the Wapping Hydraulic Pumping Station.  It illustrated those posts with a old stock photo pulled from
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/16801915@N06/6903860849"&gt;flickr&lt;/a&gt;, showing a wind engine at the pumping station,
    but the photo was taken 14 years ago, and on visiting the market this weekend I found there was no such wind engine present.
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Via Google Earth I can establish that the wind engine was
      
        &lt;ul&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;not visible in the clear aerial imagery from 2003, and doesn't appear to be in the less clear imagery through to 2008&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;it looks like the concrete base on which the wind engine was erected first appeared in 2009&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;the wind engine tower was present in 2010&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;the only clear aerial image of the wind engine including the mechanism is from 2013&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;2014 image is unclear, but doesn't seem to show the wind engine&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;The clear image from 2015 is definitely missing the wind engine&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;

      Having inspected the concrete base, which simply shows where the 4 legs were bolted down, there are no signs of any allowance for a pump to be present,
      so I have conclude that this was simply added as a decorative feature,
      whilst the pumping station was being operated as an art centre/restaurant called
      
        &lt;a href="https://thewappingproject.org/"&gt;The Wapping Project&lt;/a&gt;,
      and was present on the site approximately 2010-2013.  As far as I can tell, there was no historical basis for it being there.
    &lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Ladybird Book of The Weather</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item918.htm</link>
      <pubDate>3 May 26 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item918.htm</guid>
      <description>
    The Ladybird Book of The Weather was published in 1962, and the cover dustwrapper shows a picture of a Suffolk style post mill with a steps mounted fantail.
    The illustration, one of many delightful ones in the book painted by Robert Ayton appears inside on the pages about cumulus clouds, which are shown in the sky above the mill.
    Under the wrap, the actual boards cover of the early editions of this book shows a different image - that of a weathervane.  Later editions got rid of the separate dustwrapper,
    just having the illustration directly on the board front cover.  As such, they lose just a little of the right edge of the painting, which had flowed over the fold of the wrapper.
    
        &lt;div&gt;
        Image: [Ladybird Book, The Weather, showing a Suffolk post mill, with fantail, below cumulus clouds, published 1962Illustration by Robert Ayton, Ladybird Books]
        &lt;/div&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      I've seen 3 different version of the cover - the dustwrapper one, a variant with a ladybird appearing in the top right corner, and then one where the book is subtly restyled as
      "A Ladybird Book, The Weather".
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      What makes this news worthy is that I've just spotted that in 2023 "Climate Change, A Ladybird Book" was published, with a cover illustrated with wind turbines.
      This book has a foreword by the then Prince Charles, now King Charles.
      
        &lt;div&gt;
        Image: [Climate Chane, A Ladybird Book, showing a wind farm with 6 turbines, published 2023Ladybird Books]
        &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Amertate VAWT</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item917.htm</link>
      <pubDate>1  NaN 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>energy</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item917.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Whilst wind energy and solar are complementary, it feels like it would be a hard sell to be showcasing a wind turbine at a solar power trade show.
    However Finnish startup 
        &lt;a href="https://www.amertate.com/"&gt;Amertat Energy&lt;/a&gt; were at the
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.amertate.com/amertate-ultra-quiet-wind-turbine/"&gt;Solar and Storage show at London Excel&lt;/a&gt; this week,
    with news of their range of
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.amertate.com/our-products/"&gt;Amertate hybrid VAWT models&lt;/a&gt;.
    The hybrid label applies because the turbine makes use of
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.amertate.com/technology/"&gt;both lift and drag forces&lt;/a&gt;, which it claims allows it to have higher torque in a compact design,
    which gets it generating power at low wind speeds.
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      
        Image: [An AMT6000 VAWT 53MWh annual capacity farm installation in Finland, 2026Amertate]
        
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      The range includes turbines from 1.5kW up to 10kW, and although early devices used 8 blades, the current design uses 6 blades which has been found to be more efficient.
      The blades are made from sheet metal, avoiding hard to recycle fibreglass, and benefiting from ease of fabrication,
      also apparent in the design where the essential turbine hub is the same across all the different capacity turbines.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      The name Amertate (variously used with and without a final "e") means eternal life, and the CEO and CTO both originate from the
      South Khorasan region in Iran, where horizontal windmills operating on similar principals have been in use to grind grain for many centuries.
      (The term horizontal windmill is used for historical machines that derive their power from blades that rotate in a horizontal plane,
      but modern terminology flips the wording and confusingly calls them vertical axis wind turbines!)
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      More technical details of the turbine can be found in the Finnish patents
      
        &lt;ul&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://patenttitietopalvelu.prh.fi/en/patent/20237120/"&gt;20237120 Vertical axis wind turbine with self-adaptive blades based on wind conditions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://patenttitietopalvelu.prh.fi/en/patent/20247130/"&gt;20247130 Hybrid vertical axis wind turbine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      There are some videos of various examples of the turbine on the 
        &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Amertate"&gt;Amertate YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;.
    &lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Stevington windmill on the Toffees CD cover</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item916.htm</link>
      <pubDate>15 Apr 26 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item916.htm</guid>
      <description>
    It's not recent news - this CD was released in 2013, but it's only now that I've come across it.
    The debut, and as far as I can tell,
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/22423672-Toffees-Room-With-A-View"&gt;only album "Room with a View"&lt;/a&gt;
    from the UK band Toffees features images of and inside the post mill at Stevington, Bedfordshire.
    As it's a CD, rather than a vinyl album, the graphics actually continue on to the CD itself.
    &lt;br/&gt;
    
        Image: [Front cover of the Toffees CD album "Room with a view" showing the exterior of Stevington windmill, 2013Belinda Neasham]
        
    
        Image: [Rear cover of the Toffees CD album "Room with a view" showing the 3 guitars by the roundhouse of Stevington windmill, 2013Belinda Neasham]
        
    
        Image: [First fold of the Toffees CD album "Room with a view" showing the band by the roundhouse of Stevington windmill, 2013Belinda Neasham]
        
    
        Image: [Second fold of the Toffees CD album "Room with a view" showing the band inside the roundhouse, and on the machinery floor of Stevington windmill, 2013Belinda Neasham]
        
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      <title>Mock windmills at Tulleys Tulip Fields, St Albans</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item915.htm</link>
      <pubDate>14 Apr 26 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item915.htm</guid>
      <description>
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Over winter 2024/25 I was driving along the M25 near St Albans, Hertfordshire, when I noticed a set of windmill sails that hadn't been there before.
      On further investigation, I found that these were on a newly built mock mill, part of the Tulleys Tulip Field attraction at Willows Farm.
      I didn't get to visit the attraction in 2025, but now that spring is here, and the tulips are in full flower, I've visited this year.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      When your whole reason d'etre is to provide photo opportunities for Instagram influencers (and lesser mortals of course),
      then it seems like you should take a little care in your provision.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Thus, even though the (mock) windmill to be found at Tulley's Tulip Farm in Hertfordshire is clearly a simplified,
      even cartoon like representation of a supposed Dutch windmill, the fact that the sails are so obviously wrong is galling.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      I can forgive the simplification of the sails to not have any weather (aerodynamic twist) to them, but mounting the sail frames behind the sail stocks,
      rather than in front of them is silly - even a cursory consideration would allow you to see that to resist the very wind that powers them,
      you want them on the front, not the back of the stocks.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        Image: [Windmill at Tulleys Tulip Fields, note the poor sails erroneously fixed on the downwind side of the stocks, 10/4/26© Mark Berry]
        
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Of course, to provide an eye-catching sight, you want the sails to be turning, and avoiding the need to provide aerodynamic sails,
      point them in the right direction, and allowing for windless periods, you probably instead arrange to drive them round with a motor.
      Sails with asymmetric sail frames turn with the smaller area preceding the larger area - the ones here are thus are being driven backwards by the motor!
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      The poor thought process involved also extends to the siting of the mill.
      The ideal front on view of the sails means that the background to the photo consists of the food truck encampment,
      rather than the farm's far more photogenic tulip fields.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        Image: [Windmill and tulip barrow, at Tulleys Tulip Fields, showing the poor placement of the mill with respect to the unattractive food court in the background, 10/4/26© Mark Berry]
        
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      It has to be said that the tulip fields themselves were impressive, with lots of different varieties.
      (The press pack claims 750,000 tulips have been planted, across 100 varieties).
      The Hertfordshire venue is pretty new, having opened just last year, so mostly the rows are a single variety,
      with just the occasional miscoloured bloom, where the planting from last year has presumably re-established itself.
      It's also claimed that there are a mixture of early, mid, and late varieties planted,
      so the expectation is that the floral display will continue through to May at least.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      As well as the bulbs themselves, there are many other photo opportunities scattered throughout the site,
      including a Land Rover, tractors, a motor bike, mirrors, a number of frames ready for posed shots, and indeed another smaller mock windmill.
      Once again a little extra thought could have been worthwhile here -
      for example avoiding angling the photo frames so that the background points directly at the ugly electrical pylons that cross the site,
      and placing the second windmill where it is surrounded by tulips, rather than at the far edge of the farm.
      (The second windmill is new this year, and looking on Google Earth, it appears that the area of tulip planting has roughly doubled this year,
      so it's been placed at the very edge of the extended area).
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        Image: [Small windmill and tulips, with electricity pylon, at Tulleys Tulip Fields, 10/4/26© Mark Berry]
        
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      These comments all arise from visiting Tulleys' Hertfordshire site -
      from online photos the other sites at Crawley and Warwick follow a similar pattern, but perhaps being longer established,
      they may have worked out the problems in those sites by now.
      (A video of the equivalent big windmill at the Crawley site for example shows the sails on it rotating in the correct direction).
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      As full disclosure, I was provided with a free "influencer" media ticket, to visit the farm this year.
    &lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Progress in the restoration of Thaxted windmill</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item914.htm</link>
      <pubDate>3 Feb 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item914.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Thaxted windmill is currently undergoing a major restoration, thanks to a significant lottery grant.
    Over the past few months a roadway had been constructed across the fields to the mill,
    to allow heavy equipment to to brought in, and that has allowed the cap to be lifted off.
    Whist the original plan was to remove all the sails before the lift off, one of the stocks could not be shifted,
    so the cap was lifted off with that still attached.
    However, now it's on the ground, the millwrights Owlsworth IJP have managed to free up the stock and remove it from the poll end.
    Details of the restoration progress can be found via the
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.johnwebbswindmillthaxted.com/blog"&gt;Thaxted Windmill blog&lt;/a&gt;,
    and via social media such as 
        &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/johnwebbswindmillthaxted"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;.
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      <title>A smock wind-mill for grinding corn and chipping wood, Halifax</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item913.htm</link>
      <pubDate>3 Feb 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item913.htm</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<div>
    <div><img src="../logos/cliparttower.jpg"/>Clip art used in the ad</div>
    A advertisement for a windmill with a wood chipper, on this day in 1778
    <a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000236%2F17780203&amp;page=2">Leeds Intelligencer, 03 February 1778</a><blockquote>
    To be LETT, for a TERM of YEARS,<br/>
    And entered upon at PLEASURE,<br/>
    <i>Situate about Half a Mile from Halifax, and about a Mile from the Calder and Hebble Navigation.</i><br/>
    A SMOCK WIND-MILL for grinding Corn and chipping Wood,
    a Pair of blue and another of grey Stones, a Patent Machine for dressing Flour,
    a Pair of Rollers for Malt, a Chipping Mill and Malt Mill, with every Convenience proper for those Works.-
    Also a DWELLING-HOUSE, and suitable Outhousing, and a Quantity of Land, all adjoining to the above Mills.<br/>
    Other Particulars may be had of Mr Howorth, Grocer and Druggist in Halifax.
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      <title>Historic England: places listed in 2025</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item912.htm</link>
      <pubDate>2 Feb 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item912.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Historic England have pulled together a year end review of
    
        &lt;a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/19-remarkable-places-granted-protection-in-2025/"&gt;19 Remarkable Historic Places Listed in 2025&lt;/a&gt;.
    The list includes items being listed for the first time, (and also ones whose listing level has been ungraded), and includes some surprising objects such as
    anti-tank "Dragon's Teeth", a submarine phone cable hauler, a coal duty post, some signposts as well the expected buildings.
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      In 2025 there were 199 sites which were given protection for the first time, comprising 173 first time listings,
      21 scheduled monuments, and 5 parks and gardens.  A further 129 existing listings were amended.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Amongst the amendments, 
        &lt;a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1351087"&gt;Drapers windmill, Margate&lt;/a&gt;
      was upgraded from a Grade II to a Grade II*, to reflect its position as one of the increasingly rare operational windmills.
    &lt;/p&gt;
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    <item>
      <title>Sawston windmill, recently erected in an artistic style</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item911.htm</link>
      <pubDate>2 Feb 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item911.htm</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<div>
    <a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000225%2F18660202&amp;page=1&amp;article=071&amp;stringtohighlight=windmill">Chelmsford Chronicle, 02 February 1866</a><blockquote>
    A FIRST-CLASS BRICK TOWER WINDMILL,<br/>
    <i>With the Goodwill of the capital old-established thriving Trade connected therewith.</i>
    <hr/>
    DWELLING HOUSES, GOOD PREMISES AND PADDOCK, IN THE FLOURISHING TOWN OF SAWSTON.
    <hr/>
    Mr. Benjamin T. Thurgood<br/>
    Is instructed by Mr. Mumford, the proprietor and occupier of the above property, TO LET THE SAME BY AUCTION,
    at the Bull Inn, Sawston, on Wednesday, 14th February, 1866, at Three for Four, p.m.,
    for the term of Seven Years from the ensuing Lady-day,<br/>
    THAT very superior White-Brick TOWER WINDMILL, with 5 floors, driving 3 pairs of French stones and patent sails,
    recently erected in an artistic style, at the cost of a considerable sum of money, by Mr. William Rawlings,
    of Cambridge, and complete in all its arrangements, including appliances for steam power.<br/>
    A DWELLING HOUSE, journeyman's house, two granaries, an engine-house, three-bay wagon lodge, coal-house,
    stable, chaise-house, harness room, chaff-house, a yard and garden, and a close of meadow land,
    a short distance from the mill, containing 1a. 2r. 11p.
    The two granaries and the mill are estimated to stow 500 quarters of corn.<br/>
    There is a capital paying trade connected with this property, which is advantageously situated near the town,
    and about 1 1/2 mile from the Whittlesford and Abington stations, and two miles from the Shelford station.<br/>
    The hirer will be required to find an approved surety, and to keep the premises in tenantable repair -
    the landlord finding bricks, slates, rough timber, and lime;
    and also to take by valuation the straps, cloths, chains, ropes, pullies, shaker, and utensils and tools in trade only.<br/>
    A draft of the proposed lease may be seen upon application to Mr. Mumford, upon the premises.
    Mr. Thurgood has confidence in directing attention to the fact that the town of Sawston has the fortune
    of having two most important manufactories conducted by opulent gentlemen,
    employing many hundreds of workmen at an adequate rate of wages,
    which tends much to the prosperity enjoyed by the trade of the town.<br/>
    Further particulars may be had of W. B. Feeland, Esq., Solicitor, Saffron Walden;
    and at Mr. Benjamin T. Thurgood's Land Agency and Auction Offices, Saffron Walden.
  </blockquote></div>]]></description>
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    <item>
      <title>Roxwell wind and water corn mills</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item910.htm</link>
      <pubDate>1 Feb 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>mills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item910.htm</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<div>
    A forthcoming auction publicised on this day in 1850
    <a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000225%2F18500201&amp;page=1&amp;article=039&amp;stringtohighlight=windmill">Chelmsford Chronicle, 01 February 1850</a><blockquote>
    <h3>ROXWELL, ESSEX.</h3>    <hr/>
    ELIGIBLE WATER &amp; WIND CORN MILLS, <i>With Immediate Possession.</i>
    <hr/>
    TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, <i>By Messrs. Baker and Son,</i><br/>
    At the Black Boy Hotel, Chelmsford, on Friday, February 22nd, 1850, at Three o'Clock,
    by direction of the Executors of the late Mr. Joseph Cooch,<br/>
    ALL that eligible and highly desirable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, land-tax redeemed, situate at Roxwell,
    about 5 miles from Chelmsford, Essex, consisting of a WATER CORN MILL, driving two pairs of stones;
    also a very substantial POST WINDMILL driving three pairs of stones, with all the machinery,
    flour mills, going gears, &amp;c. recently putin upon the best construction;
    together with a respectable and commodious Dwelling-house, offices and large garden,
    exceedingly well situated, with a good trade, having been in the hands of the proprietor for many years.<br/>
    Part of the purchase-money may remain on mortgage.<br/>
    For further Particulars apply to Messrs. Chalk and Meggy, Solicitors, Chelmsford;
    Mr. Robert Swinborne, Great Oakley;
    or to the Auctioneers, Writtle and Chelmsford.
  </blockquote></div>]]></description>
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    <item>
      <title>Brame Oxford and Thomas Rockhill, Bankrupts</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item909.htm</link>
      <pubDate>30 Jan 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>mills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item909.htm</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<div>
    Auction notice for property including a watermill and a windmill published on this day in 1779.
    <a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000071%2F17790130&amp;page=4&amp;article=066">Ipswich Journal, 30 January 1779</a><blockquote>
    <h3>To be SOLD by AUCTION</h3>    By order of the assignees of the estate and effects of BRAME OXFORD and THOMAS ROCKHILL, Bankrupts,
    on THURSDAY the 2d day of Feb. between the hours of Three and Six of the clock in the afternoon,
    at the ANGEL INN in HALESWORTH, Suffolk, the following estates late of the said Bankrupts,<p/>
    LOT I. THE now residue and remainder of a term of 41 years, (whereof were 35 years to come on the 10th of October last)
    of and in a Water-Mill, Dwelling-house, Outhouses, aud about four acres of very rich meadow land in Wenhaston in Suffolk,
    lately in the occupation of the said bankrupts.<br/>
    This mill was lately new built, has 7 feet pend of water, a tumbling water wheel, 12 feet by 10,
    and a breast water wheel, 14 feet by 5 1/2, breasted 5 feet and 1/2 high,
    three pair of French stones, one pair of peak stones, two flour mills, and a machine to clean corn;
    is situated upon the river Blyth (which is navigable to the port of Southwold)
    about three miles from Halesworth, and six from Southwold (both market towns)
    in a fine corn country, where a considerable trade in the flour branch, as also in corn in general,
    may be advantageously carried on, there being no other water-mill within ten miles.<p/>
    LOT II. A new built Messuage or Dwelling-house, Stable, Granary and other Outhouses,
    yards and appurtenances belonging thereto in Holton in Suffolk, (about one mile and a half from Halesworth)
    lately in the occupation of the said Brame Oxford.<br/>
    Also, A Post Wind-Mill, with two pair of French stones, a four mill; a machine to dress corn, and a round house,
    with two floors capable of holding a considerable quantity of corn, in exceeding good repair,
    and also half an acre of garden ground belonging to the same,
    and adjoining to the said last mentioned premises late in the use of the said bankrupts.<p/>
    For further particulars enquire of Mr. Richard Dreffer of Blyford,
    or Mr. John Beales of Cheddiston, in the said county of Suffolk,
    assignees of the estate and effects of the said bankrupts.
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    <item>
      <title>Two valuable windmills</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item908.htm</link>
      <pubDate>29 Jan 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item908.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Auction notice for two windmills on this day in 1825
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000317%2F18250129&amp;page=2&amp;article=024"&gt;Northampton Mercury, 29 January 1825&lt;/a&gt;
    
        &lt;blockquote&gt;
      TWO VALUABLE WINDMILLS, IN FULL TRADE.&lt;br/&gt;
      To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, Either together or separately, At the Option of the Purchasers,&lt;br/&gt;
      Lot 1. ALL that valuable freehold ESTATE, at RISELY, in the County of Bedford (Tithe free);
      consisting of a capital SMOCK MILL, with fan Tail;
      an excellent Pair of French Stones, four Feet four Inches in Diameter, with good Regulators;
      a Pair of peak Ditto, five Feet two inches in Diameter, with good Regulators;
      a valuable dressing Machine, with two Cylinders, nearly new.
      Also, A good DWELLING HOUSE, with suitable Rooms;
      two Barns, newly erected, with Stable and Piggeries, and other out Offices;
      a good Well of Water and a lead Pump, a Garden with choice fruit Trees,
      together with a Pi[???]le of rich sward Land, containing about one Acre.&lt;br/&gt;
      The Mill is in complete Repair; and the Whole adjoining the high Road from Bedford to Kimbolton and St. Neots;
      from Kimbolton four Miles, and from St. Neots and Bedford 10 Miles each.-
      Also may be rented adjoining the same. 22 Acres of good ARABLE and SWARD LAND, if agreeable to the Purchaser;
      forming together a most desirable Situation for a Miller. The above may be entered upon at Lady Day next.&lt;br/&gt;
      Lot 2, situated at OLD WESTON, in the County af Huntingdon, consists of an excellent POST WINDMILL,
      with a capital Pair of French Stones and Regulators, four Feet tour Inches in Diameter;
      one Pair of peak Ditto, four Feet 10 Inches in Diameter, with dressing Machine nearly new, and two Cylinders.
      Also, A good brick and tiled DWELLING HOUSE, Barn, Stable, and Piggeries, with other Out offices,
      a Yard and Garden, a good Well of Water;
      also, FOUR ACRES, more or less, of good ARABLE LAND, in the open Field of WESTON aforesaid,
      which is contiguous to the House. The Whole is Freehold of Inheritance,
      is in the most complete Repair, and forms a most desirable Situation for a Miller.&lt;br/&gt;
      Old Weston is distant from Thrapston and Huntingdon seven Miles, and from Oundle eight.&lt;br/&gt;
      For a View of the above, please to apply on the Premises of each Lot;
      and for further Particulars, and to treat for the same, to Mr BRADSHAW, the Proprietor, at Dean Mills, Bed;
      or to Mr. PETER WARREN, Auctioneer, Risely, Beds.&lt;br/&gt;
      N. B. All Letters, Post paid, will be regularly answered.
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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    <item>
      <title>Hastings windmill</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item907.htm</link>
      <pubDate>29 Jan 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item907.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Another auction advertised on this day in 1824
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005968%2F18240129&amp;page=1&amp;article=049"&gt;Kent Herald, 29 January 1824&lt;/a&gt;
    
        &lt;blockquote&gt;
      HASTINGS.- WINDMILL.&lt;br/&gt;
      TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. EATON,&lt;br/&gt;
      AT the SWAN INN, Hastings, on SATURDAY, the 7 h day of February, 1524, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.&lt;br/&gt;
      A FREEHOLD SMOCK WINDMILL, with a Warehouse, and about one acre and a half of exceeding good LAND,
      situate in the parish of Saint Clement, Hastings, the property of Mr. John French, deceased,
      and now in the occupation of Mr. Eldridge, under a lease for seven years, from the 17th January, 1820,
      at the rent of £50. per annum.&lt;br/&gt;
      For further particulars enquire of Mr. JOHN LONGLEY. or Mr. WM. EDWARDS, Hastings,
      or at the Office of Messrs. BISHOP and THORPE, Solicitors, Hastings.
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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    <item>
      <title>A most desirable situation for a miller</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item906.htm</link>
      <pubDate>29 Jan 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item906.htm</guid>
      <description>
    An upcoming auction advertised on this day in 1820:
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001325%2F18200129&amp;page=2&amp;article=009"&gt;Suffolk Chronicle, 29 January 1820&lt;/a&gt;
    
        &lt;blockquote&gt;
      A MOST DESIRABLE SITUATION For a Miller, COLCHESTER, ESSEX.&lt;br/&gt;
      TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By W. JACKSON,&lt;br/&gt;
      On Wednesday, February 9, 1820, at the Blue Posts Inn, Colchester, at Twelve o'clock at noon,
      ALL that valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, advantageously situated in the Parish of Saint Botolph, Colchester,
      now in the occupation of Mr. JOHN SPRACKLIN, the Proprietor (leaving the same) in One Lot;
      comprising a very pleasant and comfortable Dwelling-House, with a keeping room, 2 parlours, 4 bed rooms,
      Bake Office (with 2 ten-bushel ovens) brew house, and kitchen; stable and other outbuildings;
      a good substantial Cottage for workmen; and a most capital and well-timbered Post Windmill, with 2 pair of French stones,
      good and convenient round house, well-binned for holding corn, with all her going gear; the whole in complete repair and condition.
      Also, a good Garden, and about One Acre and a Half of very productive Arable Land.&lt;br/&gt;
      The Mill is now in full trade, and stands well for business, either retail or shipping for London.&lt;br/&gt;
      Immediate possession may be had; and part of the purchase money may remain on mortgage of the Premises, if required.&lt;br/&gt;
      Further particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had of Messrs. Daniell, Sewell, and Daniell, Solicitors, and of the Auctioneer, Colchester.
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Post mill for sale, Bermondsey</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item905.htm</link>
      <pubDate>28 Jan 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item905.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Advertised for sale on this day, 1806:
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001427%2F18060128&amp;page=3&amp;article=012"&gt;Morning Advertiser, 28 January 1806&lt;/a&gt;
    
        &lt;blockquote&gt;
      WINDMILL-To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, by B. DONKIN, Engineer and Millwright, Fort-place, Bermondsey,
      a capital POST MILL, with two pair of stones, situated within a mile and a half of London Bridge,
      in excellent repair and full trade; also the Lease of the Dwelling House, and the Ground upon which the Mill stands,
      65 years of which were unexpired on Christmas Day last.
      For further particulars, and to view the premises, apply to Mr. Donkin, as above.-
      N. B. No person will be treated with but such as shall give satisfactory reference, if required.
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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    <item>
      <title>Windmill bits, and a dung cart</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item904.htm</link>
      <pubDate>18 Jan 2016 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item904.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Reported on this day in 1840 -
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002027%2F18400118&amp;page=1&amp;article=005"&gt;Bucks Advertiser &amp; Aylesbury News, 18 January 1840&lt;/a&gt;
    
        &lt;blockquote&gt;
      THREE GOOD CARTS, 
        &lt;span&gt;BREAK WHEEL, BREAK&lt;/span&gt;, IRON SHAFT, and NECK of a WINDMILL,&lt;br/&gt;
      AND 120 LOTS OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,&lt;br/&gt;
      FOR SALE, AT WHITCHURCH.&lt;br/&gt;
      TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY Messrs. Gibbs and Sons,&lt;br/&gt;
      Upon the Premises of Mr. John Clark, baker, of Whitchurch, Bucks (who is leaving that place),&lt;br/&gt;
      On FRIDAY, the 24th of JANUARY, 1840, at Ten,&lt;br/&gt;
      GOOD dung cart and market cart, both in iron arms, a light baker's cart on springs, three sets of harness,
      a valuable 
        &lt;span&gt;break and break wheel&lt;/span&gt;, iron shafts and neck of a windmill,
      about 120 lots of useful household furniture, and other effects.&lt;br/&gt;
      May be seen the morning of sale, and catalogue had on the premises, and of the [auctioneers], Aylesbury.
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  </description>
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    <item>
      <title>Derbyshire Burr stones</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item903.htm</link>
      <pubDate>16 Jan 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>mills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item903.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Reported on this day in 1779 -
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000401%2F17790116&amp;page=4&amp;article=034"&gt;Shrewsbury Chronicle, 16 January 1779&lt;/a&gt;
    
        &lt;blockquote&gt;
      His Majesty's Letters Patent, is granted to SAMUEL WATSON, of Baslow, near Chatsworth, Derbyshire; for the sole Making and Vending his New&lt;br/&gt;
      HAND - MILL,&lt;br/&gt;
      Made of the Derbyshire Burr Material, for grinding Wheat, which so long has been wished for, as the work is so easy and expeditious,
      and the Flour equally as good or rather superior to that which is ground on the French Burrs at the common Water or Wind-Mills,
      and so small produce of Bran, and no loss of weight betwixt the Grain and the Produce, makes the Machine of great use to all Families,
      Apothecaries, Druggists, &amp;c. Also for his&lt;br/&gt;
      NEW ROLLERS,&lt;br/&gt;
      Made of the Peak Mill-Stone Materials, for crushing Malt, Oats, Beans, &amp;c.&lt;br/&gt;
      The Power of one Man with ease (by the great improvement he has made in them) may crush 20 Bushels of Malt in One Hour,
      which is found better for Brewing than when ground on the common Mill stones, or by the Steel Hand-Mills.
      By the same power 8 Bushes of Oats or Beans may be crushed in the same Time, and it need not be here insisted on,
      that Corn thus crushed affords more nourishment to Horses or Cattle, than when given whole;
      besides they are not dried upon a Kiln, which is the usual process before common grinding, which greatly endangers the horses wind,
      being thirsty after eating provender prepared in that manner,
      and from the simplicity and strength of the Construction of the above Machines, they are not liable to be out of order,
      or unfit for use. The price at Baslow of each pair of Rollers, 5l. 5s.&lt;br/&gt;
      Whoever attempts to imitate either of the above Machines, and impose upon the public, will be prosecuted as the Law directs.
      Of the said Watson may be had Peak Mill-stones of any size.
      Also Bolting-Mills for dressing flour of the best construction may be had with the Mills.&lt;br/&gt;
      N. B. The Rollers may be seen at Mr. Thomas Hinton's, Whitchurch; Mr. D. Stodard's, St. Asaph, Flintshire;
      Mr. Brittain's, near Chester; and number of other Places in this and the adjacent Counties.
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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    <item>
      <title>Donald Smith</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item902.htm</link>
      <pubDate>14 Jan 2026 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item902.htm</guid>
      <description>
    Reported on this day in 1938 -
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003214%2F19380114&amp;page=3&amp;article=218"&gt;Daily News, 14 January 1938&lt;/a&gt;
    
        &lt;blockquote&gt;
      THE WINDMILL MAN&lt;br/&gt;
      PRESERVATION of windmills has become the self-imposed task of Mr. Donald Smith, headmaster of Park Senior School, Dagenham.&lt;br/&gt;
      He is the chief adviser to the Open Spaces Committee of the Essex County Council,
      which has approved a grant of £500 to preserve the three or four dozen windmills of Essex.&lt;br/&gt;
      "The building of windmills demanded a high standard of skill, and their wooden machinery is wonderful," said Mr. Smith to the News Chronicle.
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
    That's a remarkably bland report by the newspaper - Smith had already in 1932 produced a book, English Windmills, Vol. 2, for the SPAB,
    covering windmills in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London.
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    <item>
      <title>Free mills films via WikiFlix</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item901.htm</link>
      <pubDate>17 Dec 2025 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>mills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item901.htm</guid>
      <description>
    
        &lt;div&gt;
    
        &lt;a href="https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/search/mill"&gt;WikiFlix&lt;/a&gt;
    is a directory of films that are freely available on various video platforms such as YouTube.
    &lt;/div&gt;
    
        &lt;div&gt;
      I found the following films containing mills there
      
        &lt;ul&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/entry/3988318"&gt;The Miller and the Sweep, dir. George Albert Smith, 1898&lt;/a&gt; though it links to a deleted YouTube entry.
          However there are 
        &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Miller+and+Chimney+Sweep"&gt;multiple other copies of the film&lt;/a&gt; still available&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/entry/30543562"&gt;The Mill, dir. Alfred Machin, 1909&lt;/a&gt; a French film where a post mill's sails are used as a ride&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/entry/4517666"&gt;A Wonder Mill, 1950&lt;/a&gt; a Russian cartoon, where a small scale magic windmill is created,
          though somewhat inaccurately the bed stone and runner stone both rotate (in opposite directions)&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/entry/7751454"&gt;The Millers Daughter, 1905&lt;/a&gt; has shots of a unconvincing watermill on a painted background&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Woodbridge Tide Mill lottery grant of £26,600</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item900.htm</link>
      <pubDate>4 Oct 2025 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>watermills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item900.htm</guid>
      <description>
    I don't have much to go on, but note from the Lottery site that they have
    awarded Woodbridge Tide Mill Charitable Trust £26,600 for
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/woodbridge-tidemill-external-restoration"&gt;Tidemill External Restoration&lt;/a&gt;.
    Unlike other recent project pages at the lottery website, the page has not included any further details of the project.
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    <item>
      <title>A look back at recent windmill images from PA Images</title>
      <link>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item899.htm</link>
      <pubDate>3 Oct 2025 12:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>windmills</category>
      <guid>https://www.windmillworld.com/news/item899.htm</guid>
      <description>
    
        &lt;a href="https://www.paimages.co.uk/"&gt;PA Images&lt;/a&gt; is the current branding of what used to be called the Press Association.
    As such it continues the job of providing editorial images of current events to the media, as well as being the holder of a vast
    archive of historical news photos.
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what recent windmill news stories they have photo coverage of.
      Although they maintain their own website, they actually pass off sales to Alamy, so since their search interface is
      slightly easier to use, and provides for better incoming links, I'll
      
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/windmill.html"&gt;search the Alamy site for PA images&lt;/a&gt; as a proxy.
      (Actually there is a fairly major difference - the Alamy site only contains images that actually exist,
      whereas the PS site includes a number of other pictures, typically of subjects outside of the UK,
      which try and link you through to the Alamy site, but fail because these images do not exist there.
      Interestingly the linkage to Alamy is via searching for the image caption, rather than via any form of permalink).
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Events covered in 2025 are:
      
        &lt;ul&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image656959130.html"&gt;Specialist engineers install new sails on the 17th-century Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire. Picture date: Wednesday March 19, 2025.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image643771914.html"&gt;The sun rises behind Chesterton windmill in Warwickshire. Picture date: Sunday February 2, 2025.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image640633453.html"&gt;A person walks by Chesterton Windmill during heavy fog in Chesterton in Warwickshire. Picture date: Thursday January 16, 2025.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image637600887.html"&gt;Birds fly close to Chesterton Windmill before sunrise in Warwickshire. Picture date: Thursday January 2, 2025.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
      I'm spotting a definite theme there - the photographer
      
        &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacobkingphoto"&gt;Jacob King&lt;/a&gt;
      is based near Chesterton windmill, and supplies regular photos of it to the agency.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      Working backwards through previous years, a few other mills just about get a look in:
      
        &lt;ul&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image656374988.html"&gt;A drone view of Llancayo Windmill in Monmouthshire in the autumnal sunshine. Picture date: Wednesday November 13, 2024.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image598376269.html"&gt;Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire during a cold an dry morning in Warwickshire. Picture date: Saturday March 2, 2024.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image467081346.html"&gt;Wilton windmill, Wiltshire, where members of the Wilton Windmill Society are helping to complete the annual Spring clean of the traditional tower mill with fantail, built in 1871 and operational for 100 years. Picture date: Sunday April 10, 2022.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image457588487.html"&gt;Willesborough Windmill, a white smock mill built in 1869 is bathed in the morning sunshine as the moon sets behind in Ashford, Kent. Picture date: Thursday January 20, 2022.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image425770316.html"&gt;Clouds gather over the 17th century Pistone Windmill near Alyesbury. Picture date: Monday May 10, 2021.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image424684468.html"&gt;The moon rises behind Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire, before the April super full moon on the 27th, which is traditionally known as the Pink Moon. Picture date: Monday April 26, 2021.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image415399244.html"&gt;Groups of people watch sunset by Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire. Picture date: Wednesday March 17, 2021.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image384830722.html"&gt;Dense fog surrounds Chesterton Windmill, Warwickshire. 9 November 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image368332380.html"&gt;Jack, 10, plays with his kite as he enjoys the hot weather by Chesterton Windmill, Warwickshire. 11 August 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image366603068.html"&gt;Visitors walk by Chesterton Windmill in Chesterton, Warwickshire. 23 July 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image366217789.html"&gt;Kadie Lane, 11, takes photographs of colourful wildflowers next to Whitburn Windmill near Sunderland. 19 July 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image360003943.html"&gt;The full moon, also known as the Supermoon or Flower Moon, rises over Chesterton Windmill, Warwickshire. 7 May 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image352058007.html"&gt;The sun rises over Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire. 5 April 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image350608192.html"&gt;Fulwell Windmill in Sunderland is lit up in blue in a gesture of thanks to the hardworking NHS staff who are trying to battle coronavirus. 26 March 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image341606908.html"&gt;Sunrise by the Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire. 29 January 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image340512474.html"&gt;The sun rises over the village of Brill near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. The Grade II* listed windmill dates back to the 17th century. 20 January 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image340428697.html"&gt;The sun rises behind the Allen Clarke Memorial Windmill in Blackpool, as the chilly weekend continued with the mercury dipping below zero and fog coating large parts of the country. 19 January 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image337835878.html"&gt;The sun rises over Chesterton Windmill, in Warwickshire. 30 December 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image329930467.html"&gt;The sun sets behind the Great Haseley windmill in Oxfordshire. 15 October 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image265325000.html"&gt;People walk their dogs through a layer of morning mist by Chesterton Windmill, Warwickshire, following the hottest August Bank Holiday Monday on record, with temperatures reaching 33.2C. 27 August 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image264926746.html"&gt;A crane hoists new sails into place as they are fitted to Saxtead Green Post Mill near Framlingham, Suffolk, an 18th century corn-grinding windmill, as part of a ??250,000 conservation project. 22 August 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image264620957.html"&gt;The sun rises over Chesterton Windmill in Chesterton, Warwickshire. 20 August 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image263987503.html"&gt;A bailer works in a field in front of Great Haseley windmill in Oxfordshire. 13 August 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image262489312.html"&gt;Bright colourful rhododendrons in front of Whitburn Windmill on a bright summer day in Sunderland. 4 August 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image260080742.html"&gt;A view of Willesborough Windmill, a restored and working white smock mill built in 1869 in Ashford, Kent, during the morning sunlight. 12 July 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image258632342.html"&gt;The sun sets by Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire. 27 June 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image256858666.html"&gt;Poppies and wild flowers surround Whitburn Windmill near Sunderland. 23 June 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image247287718.html"&gt;A lady arrives to cast her votes at a polling station at West Blatchington Windmill near Hove, as voters head to the polls for the European Parliament election. 23 May 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image239513868.html"&gt;Dark clouds form over the Little Marton Windmill in Blackpool. 6 March 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image223109380.html"&gt;A near full Hunter's moon rises behind Wilton Windmill in Wiltshire. 24 October 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image213006506.html"&gt;Flowers at Whitburn windmill, Sunderland, as the hot weather continues. 22 July 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image184488847.html"&gt;A new sail is fitted to Wicken Village windmill in Cambridgeshire. 9 May 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image178179182.html"&gt;Robert Weighton, one of Britain's two oldest men, painting a model windmill in the workshop at his home in Alton, Hampshire. Mr Weighton celebrates his 110th birthday on Thursday. 21/02/18&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/160955403.html"&gt;A family take a moment to look at the Chesterton Windmill, a 17th-century cylindrical stone tower windmill which is Grade 1 listed, outside the village of Chesterton, Warwickshire. 24 September 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image158198438.html"&gt;Riders climb Brill Hill with Brill Windmill in the background during stage seven of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain from Hemel Hempstead to Cheltenham. 9 September 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/image150874163.html"&gt;Warm weather at Whitburn Windmill in Sunderland. 30 July 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/140922490.html"&gt;A crane lifts the restored roof cap back onto the National Trust's Horsey Windpump in Horsey, Great Yarmouth. 16 May 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        
        &lt;li&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://www.alamy.com/135433985.html"&gt;A view of Union Windmill, England's largest Smock Mill in the afternoon sunshine in Cranbrook, Kent. 9 March 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
      I've nothing against seeing pictures of the very photogenic Chesterton, but I can't help wondering whether this blanket coverage is getting a bit repetitive!
      I'll also note that many of these are not really news items at all -
      the sun and the moon appear every day in some form, and in summer we have hot days and flowers grow.
      I suspect that the target for these photos is not so much the news reports, but rather feature articles which are looking for a picture to go with
      an otherwise unrelated topic.  Of course, there may be selection bias happening here - the real news illustrations may age off the system very quickly,
      leaving only these sunrise/sunset/moon photos around offering some longevity on the system.
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;
      I shall be returning to PA Images in the future, to see if other real news does feature in their coverage.
    &lt;/p&gt;
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