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NEWS: The Norfolk
Windmills Trust needs your help!
As part of our plans to
improve visits to Stracey Arms Mill we are
asking visitors to complete our
on-line survey.
In
return you could win a copy of the A-Z of
Norfolk Windmills by Mike Page and Alison
Yardy.
Begin Visitor Survey Now
All
participants will be entered for a raffle
draw at the end of the summer season 2012.
Mills in the care of the
Norfolk Windmills Trust which will be open
as part of National Mills weekend 12-13 May
2012
Polkey’s Mill and Reedham
Marsh Steam Engine House
The mill and engine house will be open on
Sunday 13 May 2012 from 13.00 – 16.00.
The site comprises three mills, a steam
engine house and a diesel engine shed and is
one of only a few sites on the Broads where
all the buildings involved in the drainage
of the marshes is represented. Polkey’s Mill
has been restored to full working order and
weather permitting will be working during
the afternoon. Reedham Marsh Steam Engine
House has been restored but no longer houses
a steam engine. There is an exhibition
within the building on the drainage of the
marshes.
There is no vehicular access to the site.
Park in Reedham Village and access the site
via a 45 minute walk along the Wherryman’s
Way from behind the Ship Inn. There are
moorings available at the site.
Thurne Mill
Sunday 13 May 2012, 14.00 – 16.00
This white painted drainage mill stands at
the end of the village staithe and was built
about 1820. The mill complete with a turbine
has been restored to full working order and
wind permitting will be working.
Old Buckenham Mill
will be open Sunday 13 May 14.00 – 17.00. Admission £2.00
for adults accompanied children free.
Stracey Arm’s Mill.
Open 9.00 to 20.00 both days. There is a tearoom and
shop on site and an exhibition on; Drainage
mills on the Broads. Admission £2.00 for
adults accompanied children free.
Hardley Mill
Open Saturday and Sunday 10.00 – 16.00.
This mill has been restored
by the Friends of Hardley Mill and wind
permitting the sails will be turning. There
is a visitor centre at the site and light
refreshments will be on sale.
No vehicular access to the
site. Please park at Hardley Staithe and
walk along the Wherryman’s Way to the site.
Moorings are provided.
New
Publication from Norfolk Windmills Trust -
Mills of the Halvergate Marshes: Reedham
Marshes & Ashtree Farm
A 38 page colour guide
Price: £2.50 + 50p post and packing
Available from:
Norfolk Windmills Trust, Union House,
Gressenhall, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 4DR.
Tel: 01362 869394
Email:
alison.yardy@norfolk.gov.uk
Norfolk’s Windmills by
river, road and rail
A5 size, paperback,
illustrated, 74 pages
PUBLISHED IN FEBRUARY 2008
PRICE £6.99 + £1.50 P&P
The book describes and illustrates more than
30 corn and drainage windmills, including
Norfolk’s tallest, largest, smallest, newest
and most unusual examples.
It describes some of the personalities
behind the mills – the millers and the
millwrights – and also looks at Norfolk’s
modern alternatives to the traditional
windmill.
Illustrated with 80 colour & sepia
photographs, and 16 original maps and line
drawings.
More information about the book, and sample
pages, can be found at
www.bonwick.co.uk
Copies can be ordered online
via PayPal at the above web address.
Please direct enquiries to
luke@bonwick.co.uk or telephone 07733
108409
News from some of the Mill
sites in the care of the NWT Billingford
Mill
The sails from the mill were
removed from site and inspected by a
Millwright. There were significant areas of
rot identified and the sails were deemed to
be beyond economical repair. An application
has been made for Listed Building Consent
for new stocks and sails for the mill, the
decision whether to grant consent or not is
due in late April. Once consent is granted
the Trust would like to work with the local
community to put together a funding package
to raise the necessary funds for the works.
Any donations or offers of help to be part
of a working party to progress funding
applications will be gratefully received
please contact the Technical Adviser on
01362 869394.
Old Buckenham Mill
The mill needs new sails. Listed Building
Consent has been granted for the new sails
and the Old Buckenham Windmill Committee are
looking at putting a funding package
together to raise the necessary funding
needed.
St Olave’s Mill
Works were completed last
year on repairing and replacing the cap and
sails on the mill which were tail-winded
during the gales in January 2007. Works are
still required to the outfall waterlane and
it is hoped that these works will be
completed by a volunteer working on behalf
of the Trust.
Stracey Arm’s Mill
The mills sails will be
removed shortly and any loose timbers
removed from the gallery to make the site
safe so that visitors can still access the
mill and shop. Work continues on writing the
specification and schedule of works to
complete phase II of the works, which will
be to carry out all the repairs to the cap
and sails. The Trust is hoping that they can
go out to tender to get prices so that a
funding package can be put together. The
Trust are conducting a survey about
interpretation this summer season, as
mentioned above, to ask visitors their views
on what they would like to see happen at the
site.
Wicklewood Mill
The mill has been without
sails for a number of years whilst works to
the cap took place. The cap was completely
rebuilt using as much timber as possible
from the old cap. The new cap was fitted in
July 2006 and it is hoped that the sails
will be finally fitted this year.
Just before Christmas Mrs
Hubbard decided to go into a home in
Wymondham ending over 100 years of
occupation of the site by the Wade family.
Mrs Hubbard will be sadly missed but not
forgotten. It is hoped that Mrs Hubbard will
be able to attend when the sails go back on
the mill.
Old News
The ‘Land of
the Windmills Project – Phase 1’
The
’Land of the Windmills’ which was a
partnership project between the Norfolk
Windmills Trust, Broads Authority and
Norfolk County Council is now complete.
The project has received Heritage Lottery
Funding as well as grants from WREN (Waste
Recycling Environmental Ltd.) and Broadland
District Council. The projects aim was to
restore two mills and a steam engine house
on the Reedham Marshes and another mill at
Ashtree Farm along the Acle Straight.
Polkey’s Mill has been
restored to full working order and it will
be possible, wind permitting, to demonstrate
the mill to the public during publicised
open days. Cadge’s Mill has received a new
cap. The Steam Engine House which turned out
to be a very interesting building has been
restored and now houses an exhibition on
drainage mills. The Steam Engine House was
found to have its original 1880 corrugated
iron roof which is quite rare and made from
wrought iron rather than steel.
The landscaping works around
Polkey’s Mill and the Steam Engine House
took place last year and a regular grass
cutting regime is now in place.
Ashtree Farm Mill has received a new cap and
sails but due to the time constraints of the
project at the time and, the workload on the
millwright it was impossible to complete the
mill to full working order. This summer a
contract was let with the millwright to make
and fit a complete set of teeth for the
headwheel and pitwheel. These works should
be complete by October.
Letheringsett Watermill nr. Holt
Friends of Letheringsett Mill.
Friends of Letheringsett Mill is a small
but growing group of people interested in
helping Mike Thurlow, the miller at
Letheringsett watermill, achieve and promote
the educational side of this fascinating
project. We are still looking for more
members with enthusiasm and a passion for
mills. As a member you will have the
opportunity to contribute in many practical
ways using your particular skills, interests
or ideas to help to complete various
practical projects. Also to join in with or
even help to organise fundraising and social
events, like walks, talks & barbeques.
Membership entitles you to free admission to
the mill during usual opening times, which
will include tours when available and a
regular newsletter to keep you up to date
with progress, events and activities.
Further information on the Friends of
Letheringsett Mill, visit:
www.letheringsettmillfriends.co.uk
A detailed history of Letheringsett
watermill and most of Norfolk’s other
watermills, windmills and drainage mills can
be found by visiting:
www.norfolkmills.co.uk
Information regarding Letheringsett
watermill opening times and where
Letheringsett products can be purchased,
visit:
www.letheringsettwatermill.co.uk
The possibility of converting unmanned
former wind-pumps to produce electricity
with computer control: feasibility study
by: Keith Clayton & Martin Scott
(Norwich) and Simon Watson & Murray Thomson
(CREST, Loughborough)
Please note: This is a
draft
preliminary feasibility study, funded
through the LEADER+ programme and the views
expressed within the report do not
necessarily represent the view of the
Trustees of the Norfolk Windmills Trust,
individually or collectively.
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A.
Final Executive summary 10 Jun 05.pdf
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B. CREST Norfolk Windmills Final Report GIF 1 Jun 05.pdf
[1.33MB]
C. Conserving the Mills May 2005.pdf
[42KB]
D. The Generating Mill tourism report 18 May 05.pdf
[17KB]
E.
Summary of costs and income.pdf [14KB]
F. Drainage Mills Schedule.pdf
[38KB]
Mills Map.pdf
[4.05MB]
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