Hornchurch, The Windmill 1909
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This is an East Anglian-style post mill with a white-painted weatherboarded body, four spring patent shuttered sails and winded manually by a tailpole. The photograph shows the mill in full working order, but idle; the mill door is closed, with the security bar in place. A man and a two-wheeled horse and cart and the boys in the foreground wait patiently for the photographer to complete his record. The mill ceased work in 1912, and was accidentally burnt down in 1921.
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