An interesting photograph, sent in by Gary Morse of Folkestone, showing some maintenance being done to the sails of the windmill in Stelling Minnis, near Canterbury, Kent. The windmill was built in in 1866 and unusually was in commercial use until the late 1960s. It is now owned by Kent County Council and open to the public every Sunday afternoon between Easter and the end of September each year.
An etching of a Fenland Windmill by the artist Percy Thomas (1846-1922).
The Windmill, Silver Sreet, Edmonton, Middlesex, before the First World War.
A scan of a reproduction postcard featuring Edmonton Windmill, Middlesex around 1914.
Click to see an enlarged version of the image. Loads of great detail!
Gruss aus Winden.
A picture postcard mailed in 1900 from a German-speaking area of Hungary.
Another German postcard from our picture archive. This card was posted in 1910 from Bobernig, near Gruenberg, Silesia, Germany. The village has since 1945 been part of the province of Lubuskie in western Poland but sadly after visiting the location last summer no trace of the mill remains.
An old picture postcard featuring the windmill in Bobernig, near Gruenberg, Silesia, Germany.
Click to enlarge the image.
We’re currently researching the mills of Central and Eastern Europe for a new book. More details on our European Mills project.
At the end of the 19th century many mills all over Europe were converted from wind power to steam.
Here is a typically sized mill steam engine on a postcard from France, c.1907.
An old picture postcard of a steam engine (boiler) powering a mill in Cotignac, France.
The postman just delivered this rather fine postcard. It features an unidentified windmill and a dog taking some Dutch children for a ride in a cart! Mailed in 1953.
A 1950s postcard featuring a Dutch windmill and dog cart!
Another picture of a dog cart and windmill from our mills archive.
See also our page of old picture postcards of windmills in Holland.
Here we have a newly acquired old picture postcard. This photographic postcard is of a mill in Gheluwe, in the Flanders region of Belgium. See also our section on Windmills in Old Pictures.
An old picture postcard of a windmill in Gheluwe, Flanders, Belgium. This was posted in 1912 to Posen, Germany.
A scan of a old French postcard from our extensive picture archive.
A 1905 picture postcard of a ruined windmill in St. Leon, Allier, France.
More images ftom our picture archive of mills in France.
A late 1960s Russian Christmas Card featuring Saint Nicholas and two windmills.
Merry Christmas to windmill enthusiasts everywhere!