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Colebrook Priory Mill, Shirley, Birmingham

Colebrook Priory Mill, Shirley, Birmingham

An enclosed description of the image reads: "A new use for an old device--Germans place search lights on windmills to mark Great Continental air-routes. Photo shows: An up-to-date old windmill, equipped with a powerful search light to guide aviators on the great Continental air route between Moscow, Danzig and Berlin. German air authorities have found this a most economical way to cope with the growing demand for air travel." Underwood & Underwood negative no. S/1215X56.

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Wind engine with an attached searchlight

Wind engine with an attached searchlight

An enclosed description of the image reads: "A new use for an old device--Germans place search lights on windmills to mark Great Continental air-routes. Photo shows: An up-to-date old windmill, equipped with a powerful search light to guide aviators on the great Continental air route between Moscow, Danzig and Berlin. German air authorities have found this a most economical way to cope with the growing demand for air travel." Underwood & Underwood negative no. S/1215X56.

Underwood & Underwood, photographers

Photograph - "New Castle Plant, St. John"

Photograph - "New Castle Plant, St. John"

A 1981 print of an earlier photograph of "New Castle Plantation St John", marked "CR Webster" on the reverse (Nicholls having consulted with a Colin Webster on the Morgan Lewis sugar mill restoration). The note on the reverse continues, "This Steam Engine was the first to operate as a sugar factory in the early 1900".

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

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