Platinum Jubilee: Crowds watch lighting of Nottingham windmill beacon
It was one of thousands of beacons lit across the Commonwealth on Thursday.
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It was one of thousands of beacons lit across the Commonwealth on Thursday.
Saxtead Green Mill in winter - Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Thorpeness Windmill - Credit: Getty Images Thorpeness Windmill Situated on the Suffolk coast is Thorpeness Windmill, a Grade II-listed post mill. Built in 1803, this former corn mill was originally based in Aldringham but was then moved to Thorpeness and converted into a water pumping mill in 1923, in order to supply the nearby House in the Clouds with water. Its quaint design can be attributed to the Ogilvie family, who replaced its American-style metal mill with a more traditional, weatherboarded style, in keeping with t...
How Nottingham's Green's Mill saved the day during the pandemic 19th century technology came to the fore Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Not since the 1800s have the people of Nottingham relied so much on their local windmill for flour as they did during the Covid pandemic. As toilet roll, pasta and flour ran out in supermarkets across the the UK, staff and volunteers at the county'...