Mount Pleasant Mill
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Mount Pleasant Mill is a windmill north of Kirton in Lindsey on the North Cliff Road in North Lincolnshire in the east of England (Yorkshire and the Humber).
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[edit] Construction
It was built in 1875 for miller Edric Lansdall as a four-patent-sailed, slightly tapering four-storeyed tarred tower mill with onion-shaped cap and fantail on top of the remaining roundhouse of a previously errected post-mill. The junction between the former roundhouse wall of hand-made bricks and the newly superimposed tower made of machine-moulded bricks is almost indistinguishable. On the second floor, the stone floor, originally three pairs of millstones (two pairs of peak stones (grey stones or greys) and one pair of quartzite (French stone)) were driven, of which only one grey pair remained. This peak stone is cut from rock commonly called Millstone Grist quarried in the Peak District of southwest Yorkshire and northeast Derbyshire, England.
The mill has had a namesake windmill in Stockton-on-Tees, built around 1790 as a 8-storeyed four-sailed stage-windmill of ca. 80 ft height in reverse colours (white painted tower with black onion-shaped cap) and demolished around the late 1920's.
[edit] History
Mount Pleasant Mill worked by wind until 1933 and by a steam engine until 1973. Mr Fred Banks run her at that time who also owned the famous Alford Windmill. It is the only windmill in the area beside Heapham Mill with original and unrestored equipment and machinery of the 1920's and 1930's. The original cap with the oak cap frame is still in place. The original windshaft, wallover, upright shaft (sometimes called king-shaft or king-pin) and great spur wheel are iron-made, as well, as are the tooth ring of the wooden brakewheel with its timber clasp arm construction and wooden brake, all installed in the 1930's. A rare refinement to the mill is the elevator to replace the old sack hoist which worked off the underside of the wallower by a friction ring, and the elevator to feed the first floor bin (3rd floor) for the hurst frame. This is a massive timber made frame supporting the transfer gearing and the heavy mill stones casings and helping reduce the vibration of the turning mill stones and their wheels (stone nuts). It is a separate structure inside the mill tower thus reducing the transfer of vibrations and noise into the building itself.
The mill was restored in 1991 and is a commercially working flour mill, making organic flour which is obtainable to the public. There is a tea-room for visitors.
[edit] Working Windmills In Lincolnshire
Today there are eight working windmills in all of Lincolnshire.
[edit] Four Sailed
- Ellis Mill in Lincoln
- Mount Pleasant Mill in Kirton in Lindsey
[edit] Five Sailed
- Alford Windmill
- Dobson's Mill (a museum windmill) in Burgh-le-Marsh (left-handed)
- Maud Foster Windmill in Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire (tallest working windmill in all England)
[edit] Six Sailed
- Sibsey Trader Mill
- Waltham Windmill (a museum windmill)
[edit] Eight Sailed
- Heckington Windmill, the world's only eight-sailed Dutch type tower windmill
Alford, Mount Pleasant, and Maud Foster Windmills are commercially working mills.
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