A brand new traditional windmill!

Up on the South Downs things are stirring.They are rebuilding Ashcoombe Post Mill,which blew down many years ago.lt was odd in having six sails,not four.The new one will grind flour,and make electricity.Who said wind turbines are ugly?

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Science & Technology

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• Ashcoombe
• Post
• mill
• Sussex

[bluemoondiadochi]

windmills are always pleasant to see in the landscape, they enhance it, unlike the turbines which are something to get used to...

[AG3304]

@bluemoondiadochi You are so right there,but l think we may have to get used to the new ones...

[DavidJonesFurniture]

I have met the owner and If the cameraman got closer he would see the underground house in the shape of a doughnut that will be recovered with soil so no one will see. The centre is preserved archeology . That is the 4 brick piles inset into the chalk which were the foundations of the original post mill. To get past planning this mill is built of steel internally and must be able to withstand being tail winded in a 100mph gail ! serious stuff

[AG3304]

@DavidJonesFurniture Sounds a very interesting blend of ancient and modern then.Always good to see another windmill appearing in the landscape.100 MPH tailwind?Gawd,that IS serious stuff! Patent sail shutters everywhere throughout the county...

[strettonnet2]

now thats what i like to see, i had a similar idea for my IVA in college, to build traditional windmills or to restore delapidated ones to produce electricity, i love windmills and to see new...well old new ones reappearing on the horizons is fantastic, its worked for holland all these years to keep them dry, so why cant britain restore them for better purposes aswell

[AG3304]

Well there was a plan to restore all those derelict drainage mills in Norfolk,and get them generating juice too,but l don't think it ever came off.

The Dutch have the right idea,and there's one polder still drained by windmills now!

[AG3304]

l,ve never managed to get there yet,sounds as if they're worried about lightning strikes.Very wise too!

[AG3304]

Thanks!

[AG3304]

They did just a little!At the time windmills were thought of as obsolete,but of course this'll contain a generator! :-)

[Madness832]

Wow, they sure waited quite awhile before rebuilding it -- 110 years? :D