2008

SK5839 : Green's Mill - brake wheel and wallower

taken 16 years ago, near to Nottingham, England

Green's Mill - brake wheel and wallower
Green's Mill - brake wheel and wallower
This is difficult to photograph due to a mesh guard but I've done slightly better than Ashley Dace. The brown band is the band brake around the brake wheel that is mounted on the windshaft. The sails are outside to the left. The brakewheel is meshing with the wallower on top of the main shaft that is of wood and is square in section.

The caps of windmills are fascinating and potentially dangerous spaces so access is often restricted.
Green's Mill, Sneinton

The Mill was built shortly after 1807 by the father of 19th-century self taught mathematical physicist George Green, whose name was also George Green. It is located on the site of a previous post mill and there were at least two other mills on Windmill Lane in Sneinton. There are two stones, a pair of common sails and a pair of spring sails. In 1829 the elder Green died and his son inherited the mill and operated it until his death in 1841.

The mill was still in use until the 1860s, after which it was abandoned and gradually fell into disrepair. In 1923 a copper cap was fitted at the top to make the building watertight and this survived until a fire destroyed it in 1947.

The mill was derelict until it was acquired by Nottingham City Council in 1979. Funds were raised and it was renovated by Thompson's, millwrights of Alford, Lincolnshire in 1984 - 86. It was reopened on 2 December 1986 and is now part of a science centre which is open to the public.


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SK5839, 418 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 19 July, 2008   (more nearby)
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Tuesday, 29 November, 2011
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OSGB36: geotagged! SK 5859 3976 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:57.1217N 1:7.7634W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SK 5859 3976
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