2011

TM0178 : Thelnetham Windmill

taken 13 years ago, near to Blo' Norton, Norfolk, England

This is 1 of 28 images, with title Thelnetham Windmill in this square
Thelnetham Windmill
Thelnetham Windmill
See also TM0178 : Thelnetham Windmill

You can see the auxiliary pulley at the base, this mean an external engine (first steam, later oil and diesel) drove a hurst frame in the bottom.
TF3344 : Maud Foster Mill - Hurst Frame
Thelnetham Windmill

Thelnetham mill is a small towermill built around 1819, it replaced an earlier postmill which was moved to Diss. When built it had common sails (cloth) with overdrift millstones. Thomas King, a local carpenter, records that the mill was begun in 1819 and 'set to work on Christmas Day Dec.25 1819'
Modernisation in 1832 added a steel windshaft and underdrift stones, probably with the governors. From 1892 a portable steam engine was used to drive a hurst frame. 1914 saw a Hornsby engine run the hurst frame.
The mill was used until 1924.

In the late 1970s before conversion to a house was put forward the site was bought for restoration by volunteers of the Suffolk Mills group.
It is now open on the second Sunday of the month May - October.


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TM0178, 144 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ashley Dace   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 28 January, 2011   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 28 January, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TM 011 789 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:22.3110N 0:57.1612E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TM 011 789
View Direction
West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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