An old postcard showing a windmill in Brokdorf an der Elbe (on the river Elbe) in Germany.
More German Mills on old postcards.
An old postcard showing a windmill in Brokdorf an der Elbe (on the river Elbe) in Germany.
More German Mills on old postcards.
A sniper in a windmill in France!
“A windmill is an ideal coign of vantage”
Click image for larger version of this picture of a French sniper.
See also our webpage with a selection of old photographs of windmills in France.
A French windmill and a postman on a dog cart!
More French windmills in old photographs and on old picture postcards.
A new addition to our picture archive – an early image of a mill in Germany.
More old pictures of windmills in Germany.
Another windmill-related item in our collection!
This is a model windmill made by Ernst Plank of Germany in the early 1900s. These models were once popular toys and were designed to be powered by a miniature stationary steam engine such as those made by Mamod, Doll, Bowman, Sel, Meccano, Stuart Turner, Fleischmann and Wilesco.
Many full-sized mills, originally wind-powered, were converted to steam engine driven mills at the end of the 19th century. The mill in High Ham is just one example of a windmill, which was converted to steam in the final years of its active life.
Come back soon to see a film of this mill being worked by our own working steam engine!
This website is about mills, mostly wind-powered mills!
Our primary focus will initially be on English windmills, but, our website will expand over time to include pictures of and information on many other mills around the world. As we are based in the wonderful county of Somerset in south-west England, we also include up-to-date details of local windmills open to the public, such as the tower mills in Chapel Allerton and High Ham. We will add newly scanned images from our picture archive to the site monthly or more often if time allows. In the near future our site should include almost everything you may wish to know about windmills. Come back soon for another look.
Wind and water powered mills throughout Europe, from England to Poland.
If you share our interest in industrial archaeology and most especially windmills or water mills and have a mill-related question you’d like answered, do get in contact.
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Windmuehlen / Windmühlen is the German word for windmills!