After more than one hundred years, STEAM POWER is returning to Oldland Windmill, Sussex’s oldest working windmill.
A successful trial on June 14th proved the practicality of a steam engine driving the millstones inside the windmill. In Victorian times, this system was used to grind flour at windmills when there was too little wind, but grinding with steam like this died away with the end of commercial wind-milling in the early years of the twentieth century.
On Sunday July 5th, steam power will be back at the mill, which will be open to the public. For details, see the Oldland Windmill website.
Stuart Meier
Chairman, Oldland Mill Trust
Oldland Windmill is a Corporate Friend of the Mills Archive Trust