Category Archives: Windmills

Crowland Post Windmill

Crowland Post Mill

A close-up of Crowland Post Windmill as it looked in around 1909.

Crowland Post Mill was built in the late 1790s and worked for just under a hundred years before going out of use. The windmill was burnt down just two year’s after this photograph was taken and no sign of the mill is visible today.

Crowland Windmill

The same early 1900s photographic view of Crowland Windmill. Also visible are Croyland abbey and Postland Road School.

A local newspaper report of 1911 reported on the demise of the mill in this way:

“Gunpowder Plot – Old Mill set on fire. Crowland celebrated ‘Guy Fawkes’ in a lively way on Saturday by setting fire to an old windmill on the Postland road, which though it had been standing idle for nearly twenty years, lovers of the past are sorry to see demolished, and see an old landmark pass into oblivion. The mill was the property of the Rector of Crowland and although a reward has been offered, up to the present the culprit or culprits have not been traced.” (edited)

Crowland is a village located between the large towns of Peterborough and Spalding in Lincolnshire, north-east England.

Foston Post Mill

Foston windmill

A photograph of Foston Post Mill taken in around 1930.

The Post Mill in Foston, Lincolnshire, north-east England, was built in 1624 and is believed to have worked at two separate sites in the village before going out of use at the end of the 19th century. It was sadly demolished in 1966.

Foston is around nine kilometres (six miles) north-west of the town of Grantham.

Sharnbrook Mill

Sharnbook – a Bedfordshire Windmill

Sharnbrook Windmill

A photograph of the windmill in Sharnbrook as it looked in 1929, forty-nine years after it was built.

The tower mill in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, England, was erected in 1880 and stopped working only ten years later. By 1920 the sails had been removed and the mill was in a somewhat derelict state. The photograph above shows the condition the windmill was in when photographed in 1929. The mill was converted to living accommodation and the cap removed and replaced with an observatory of sorts in around 1970. A house has been built next to the tower and the entire property is in private ownership.

Stickney Windmill

The five-storey Tower Mill in Stickney was built in 1842 and worked until the late 1960s. In the last few years powered though by electricity rather than wind. In its prime the mill had four patent sails driving three pairs of stones on the second floor, with a further pair of millstones on the first floor driven by engine. The tower still stands and is now used as a store by a nearby engineering works. No milling machinery survives internally.

Stickney Windmill

An old photograph of the mill in Stickney, c.1933.

An old image of the windmill in Stickney, Lincolnshire, north-east England.

The Mill in Grödersby

Jens Ole Sendke windmill

Groedersby windmill as featured on an old picture postcard posted in 1909.

Close to the German / Danish border, in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, in a small town called Grödersby, a rather splendid four-floor ‘Dutch’ windmill dating back to 1888 can be found.

Grödersby Groedersby mill

The Mill in Grödersby seen from a distance on a grey day in November. Photo by Jens Ole Sendke.

Unfortunately as the mill is now a private residence there is currently no public access.

Grödersby

Grödersby on a map of north-west Europe.

It is though possible to rent a beautiful nearby little house called Mühlenholz, which used to belong to the owners of the mill, at a very reasonable rate. Full details of the cottage can be found here.

Coningsby Windmill

Windmill coningsby

An early 1900s photograph of the windmill in Coningsby, Lincs.

Three archive images of the mill in Coningsby in the county of Lincolnshire in England.

windmill coningsby lincs

An old image of the mill in Coningsby, Lincs, as it appeared in 1910.

windmill coningsby lincolnshire

The windmill on Silver Street in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, c.1911.

Coningsby Tower Mill was built in 1826 and milled for the last time around 1905. Unfortunately it was demolished in 1970.

Bremen Windmill

Bremen Mill Through Time

Bremen muehle mill

An old photograph of the mill in Bremen, Germany, c.1935.

Three images of the ‘Am Wall’ smock (Galerieholländer) mill in Wallanlagen Park, Bremen, north-west Germany.

windmill bremen

A late 1960s photograph of the late 19th century windmill from the grounds of the Hillmann Cafe.

The mill dates back to 1898 and is built around an eight sided base, with the upper part steered by a wind vane. The four sails of the windmill are shuttered.

mill bremen

An aerial view of the Am Wall mill in Bremen. As can be seen the mill is located in the middle of a city park.

This fine example of a smock mill is now home to a restaurant and the mill itself open tourists every afternoon on payment of a small charge.

The Mill in Quainton

Quainton Windmill

Windmill Quainton

An old photographic image of the mill and the remains of an old cross in Quainton in Buckinghamshire, c.1914.

This mill is located in Quainton, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. It is a 20 metre (70 ft) six-storey brick tower mill, first used in 1832. It went out of use around 1890 and in 1914 the steam engine and boiler, which had driven the millstones for the later part of its working life, were sold for scrap. However, the mill has undergone ongoing restoration since the mid 1970s and now has all the internal workings to enable it to grind wheat into flour. The mill is privately owned but open every Sunday between 10am and 1pm from March through to the beginning of October.

quainton mill

The mill with children on the village green in Quainton, Bucks. This was taken in 1905.

Windmill Quainton

A photograph of the windmill prior to restoration around 1970. Notice that the cap, fantail, and sails are missing.