WINDMILLS, AND THOSE AROUND TRING.
Hawridge Mill
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INTRODUCTION I. WHO OWNS THE WIND? II. TYPES OF WINDMILL
Post mills Smock mills Tower mills
III. HOW A WINDMILL WORKS
Introduction What a windmill does The floors of a windmill The windmilling process The sails The machinery The millstones The fantail Ancillary equipment Appendix: the roller mill
IV. THE MILLER
A cheat? Food adulteration The miller’s trade A tough business Dangerous work Figures of speech: relics of the miller’s trade Appendix I: wheat, flour and bread Appendix II: gleaning
V. THE MILLWRIGHT
The millwright’s skills Decline of the millwright’s trade Local millwrights:
The Hillsdons of Tring William Cooper of Aylesbury
VI. PITSTONE POST MILL
VII. GAMNEL WHARF TOWER
MILL
The new canal and Gamnel Wharf The Grover family The Massey family Gamnel tower mill Thomas Bailey, miller’s apprentice The first use of steam Bushell’s boatyard Modernisation The closure of Bushell’s boatyard Heygates Flour Mill
VIII. GOLDFIELD TOWER MILL
The name ‘Goldfield’ The Grover family The Liddington family James Wright, the last miller The windmill abandoned Restoration of the granary and cottage Restoration of the windmill tower
IX. HAWRIDGE TOWER MILL
The smock mill replaced The tower mill’s early life Gilbert Cannan and friends The windmill’s later life Appendix: technical details of the windmill
X. WENDOVER TOWER MILL
A massive structure Construction The millers The windmill in domestic life Appendix: auctioneer’s particulars (1875)
XI. QUAINTON TOWER MILL XII. BRILL POST MILL XIII. LACEY GREEN SMOCK MILL XIV. VANISHED WINDMILLS
XV. WINDMILLS IN LITERATURE
In prose In verse Windmills and symbolism The Miller of Tring (song)
XVI. LOCAL WINDMILLS TO VISIT
Pitstone post mill Brill post mill Lacey Green smock mill Quainton tower mill Chinnor post mill Appendix: Edlesborough and Doolittle mills
ADDENDA
Glossary of windmill terminology Sources
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