The mill pictured early in 2009 looking rather odd with a sail missing due to storm damage.

Repairs under way by local millwright  Joe Gillett who made and fitted the replacement sail in March 2009.

Some views of the original machinery in the mill.

The large yellow painted wheel in the upper photographs is the great spur wheel which is made from two huge castings bolted together.

The green horizontal wheel is the wallower, mounted at the top of the blue centre shaft. The yellow differential gears above it are part of the luffing gear which turns the cap to bring the sails into wind.

In the lower picture the red windshaft can be seen, with the wooden brake wheel, lacking its gear teeth but with the white steel brake band fitted. The white centering wheel in the picture is one of a set of four which keep the moveable cap firmly on the tower.

In 2011, soil which was banked against the mill wall was removed, and drainage improved, in order to reduce problems with water ingress into the mill basement.

The first picture shows the line of original soil level where the render stops.

The second picture is a close up of the exposed original brickwork, in remarkably good condition for its age.

The render was subsequently made good down to the new ground level.

Another major repair in July 2011 was the replacement of leaking window frames, some of the doors and  repairs to the others.

The main purpose of this work is the preservation of the mill structure, but a secondary benefit is that the heritage displays can be kept in place instead of being removed to storage between open days.  

The next few pictures show parts of the milling technology exhibition on the second floor.

The picture to the right is a near full size model of the millstones in their vat, the driving gear, and the hoppers and shoe arrangements which feed in the grain.

Below, a mill bill, (stone dressing tool), detail of the mill alarm, which alerts the miller to a falling grain supply, and a selection of fragments of kiln tiles, showing the variation in their designs.

Finally, two views of the mill taken at dawn on a spring morning in 2011.

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©Friends of Little Marton Windmill 2012