South Normanton, The Old Windmill c.1965
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S725012
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Here we see a post mill with an open trestle in its last stage of dereliction. The picture clearly shows the structural framing of a post mill with its trestle. It is remarkable in that it shows a complete lack of diagonal bracing to stiffen the structure: a lot of the stresses caused to the structure when the mill was working would have been passed to the weatherboarding, not a very good idea. The mill was built around 1805; it ceased working in 1908, and was dismantled in 1980.
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