MEMORY LANE: Wind power was harnessed by a pioneering South

Here, Robin Longbottom examines how one 19th-century entrepreneur harnessed wind power
TODAY when we think of wind power, the many three-bladed wind turbines that have been springing-up across the countryside come to mind.
It is now about 30 years since they first became a feature of our landscape and we assumed that wind power in our area
was a very new and innovative development.
However, it may come as a surprise that in the mid-1870s an enterprising joiner and cartwright turned organ builder, built a windmill at West Closes Farm in Glusburn to power his saws, woodturning lathes and drills.

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