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Sniper in French Windmill

A sniper in a windmill in France!

windmill sniper first world war france

A plate from an old ‘Navy & Army Illustrated’ from 1915. This found at a car boot sale in Somerset.

“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.

Steam Powered Windmill

Another windmill-related item in our collection!

 steam wind mill from germany
A toy tin-plate windmill made by Ernst Plank of Germany in around 1910. This model is 17cm high.

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!

English Windmills

This website is about mills, mostly wind-powered mills!

old village mill england

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 Mills

berlinchen barlinek mlyn mill

A picture postcard of a water mill in Berlinchen / Barlinek, c.1912.

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.

Our email address is:

Windmühlen

Windmuehlen / Windmühlen is the German word for windmills!