Horning, The Old Wind Pump 1902
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A small hollow post wind pump for land drainage, the mill had shuttered sails and was turned to the wind by twin tail vanes. The shutters in the sails were set manually, one sail at a time. The mill would have been stopped by turning it out of the wind by pulling on a rope attached to the tail vanes. These small low-cost windpumps were quite widely used in the Broads area; similar mills are preserved at Upton and How Hill, and can be visited.
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