Stelling Minnis windmill, Kent 🌍

Photos: (1) Batten (a) in good condition (working by steam at this time) but with sails broken (2) de Little (a) w/o with 2 sails (b) brakewheel, wallower and upright shaft (3) Wailes (WIK) (a) interior of cap with brakewheel (4) Turpin (WIK) (a) w/o, late 1970s (b) w/o, late 1970s; close-up of cap and sails (5) Vince 1977 (a) w/o, with 4 sails, mid-late 1970s (6) Freese (a) great spur wheel (7) NMR (a) with sails down to stocks and damaged fan, May 1932 (b) ditto, plus stage removed, March 1934 (c-f) w/o, August 1935 (g) w/o, with 2 sails, 1965 (h-k) internal views (8) THOC OHADSLHG (a) w/o (9) CKS (a-d) w/o (e) w/o with 2 sails (f) w/o with 2 sails, 1935 (g) w/o with 2 sails, as West (h-n) internal views, including one of the Ruston Hornsby oil engine (10) CL (a) complete but with no sail frames, stocks only (b) w/o (11) Guide to mill produced by EKMG 1977 (a) w/o 1970s (b) w/o pre-WW2 (c) Vincent Pargeter fitting new sweeps in 1974 (d) new sweeps being removed or fitted, late C19 or early C20 (NOTE: the first 3 photos are also in 1979 edition) (12) EKMG Stelling Minnis guide, 1979 edition (a-b) removal of old sweeps by Vincent Pargeter, 1974 (c) Mr A Davison in doorway of mill (13) West (a) w/o with 2 sails, early 1970s (14) TIMS Transactions 4th Symposium 1977 (a) looking up from ground at spider and triangles of the two surviving patent sweeps (15) Coles Finch (a) w/o with four complete sails (b-c) when engine-driven, with four broken sails (one photo is a frontispiece captioned "Springtime by Stelling Minnis Mill") (16) UOK (MC) (a) disused with sails down to stocks, March 1934 (b) w/o, August 1935 (c-e) w/o, March 1940 (f) engine belt drive, March 1940 (f) stone nut engaged, March 1940 (g) stone nut disengaged, March 1940 (h) detail of sweep, March 1940 (i) tablet inside mill commemorating restoration, March 1940 (17) UOK (DC) various newspaper cuttings plus (a-d) w/o, mid-C20 (e) w/o, September 1984 (f-g) w/o, July 1976 (h-j) w/o, early C20 (k-l) w/o with 2 sails, early-mid C20 (i) w/o, mid- to late C20 (j) w/o with 2 sails, mid- to late C20 (m) w/o with four sails, 1970s (postcard sent 1978) (n-o) w/o, early to mid-C20 (p) with shortened sails when engine-driven, early to mid-C20 (r) w/o apart from some fan blades missing, mid-late C20 (s) with sails down to shortened stocks, no fan, and stage also miss-ing, May 1934 (t) w/o with two sails, August 1960 (u) w/o with two sails, 1950s/60s (v-w) w/o, mid-C20