TL4462 : Fitting the sails, Impington Windmill - 8

near to Impington, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain

Fitting the sails, Impington Windmill - 8
Fitting the sails, Impington Windmill - 8
Nearly finished fitting sail number two. The ropes running from the end of the horizontal stock are tied down inside the mill to prevent the sails turning during the operation.

Optimistic team members hoped to have all four sails on in one day, but although raising the second took only an hour, raising the first had involved a steep learning curve, and jammed pulleys, and only two sails were finished by the end of the day.

There is still a lot of work to do inside the mill before it will produce flour again.
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TL4462, 21 images   (find more images nearby)
Photographer
Gareth Hughes   (find more nearby)
Image classification
Geograph
Date Taken
Sunday, 9 September, 2007
Submitted
Monday, 10 September, 2007
Category
Windmill   (find more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 441 623 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:14.4173N 0:6.5834E
Photographer Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 441 622
View Direction
Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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