Restoring Brill Windmill
In 1948 Stanley Freese replaced the sails on Brill Windmill. Photographs from the collection show the process, described more fully in Freese’s Windmills and Millwrighting.
The mill still in good repair, 3 September 1934
The state of the mill by January 1948
Removing sail, March 1948
Final sail removed, 7 May 1948
The mill with no sails, July 1948
George Green and Jack Blake making sails, 20 July 1948
Stock and sails ready to be taken to the mill
Transporting stock to the mill, 29 September 1948
Levering the stock into place, 30 September 1948
The second stock on the ground, 30 September 1948
Levering the second stock into place, 2 October 1948
Attaching the first sail, 3 October 1948
Rotating sails after attaching the first three, 4 October 1948
Lifting the fourth sail, 4 October 1948
The four sails complete, 22 October 1948
Preparing to build the roundhouse, August 1950
Arthur White preparing to build the new roundhouse on the foundations of the previous one, August 1950
Arthur White building the roundhouse, August 1950
The mill complete with sails and roundhouse, March 1951