Author: Fred Atkins

Tilting at windmills

I came across this cigarette card on the internet showing a familiar Don Quixote scene with DQ attacking a giant/windmill....

Finchingfield Windmill

I wonder if anyone could shed any light on the windmill item attached? It is from the collection of my...

Pub sign

A fellow member of the Windmill Study Unit, Stan Darling, recently saw an interesting sign outside The Millstone Inn at...

Blocks at Herne Windmill

Set in the inside wall of the ground floor at Herne Mill are a number of wooden blocks each the...

Windmills on stamps

As you probably know, people out there are attempting to augment their income by printing spurious stamps (known as cinderellas)...

Corn Mills on London Bridge

This nice stamp shows old London Bridge. I know that there were at some time waterwheels under the arches and...

Mystery Windmill

A new acquaintance has shown me a number of windmills photographed around the 1930s. A number of them were unidentified,...

Mystery windmill

A friend of mine found an interesting CD-Rom at a local boot fair which consisted of several hundred photos of...

Photo retouching

I copied Jenny West’s old postcard on Facebook and retouched it with my Picasa 3 program (free from Google). The...

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