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Yorkshire Post mills With digital objects English
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Kirk Smeaton

This copy of the postcard indicates that a 1/2d stamp is required. The postage rate for postcards rose to 1d in 1918, so the image presumably does not date from later than that year.

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Skirlaugh

Pen and ink drawing, M650 Skirlaugh, post mill, 8.25 miles NE of Hull, 12/10/1933

Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist

Moor Monkton

Pen and ink drawing, M443 Moor Monkton, base of tower mill, 6 miles NW of York, 06/04/1933

Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist

Little Smeaton

Pen and ink drawing with wash, M351 Little Smeaton post mill, 5.5 miles SE of Pontefract, 01/09/1932. At the date of this drawing this was the oldest standing mill in Yorkshire.

Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist

Ganstead

Pen and ink drawing, M1238 Ganstead post mill, 4.5 miles NE of Hull, 1932

Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist

Burton Lane, York

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Photograph of the mill in 1870, copied from a paper negative in the City of York Art Gallery, dated 24-vi-36.

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Skirlaugh, Holderness, Yorkshire

Note on reverse reads: "The second postmill in the county. A very fine specimen and machinery is complete. Three pairs of stones: flour dresser etc. Ceased to work 1911. Mill is raised from the ground on 4 pillars (brick & stone)."

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Little Smeaton, near Pontefract, Yorks

Note on reverse reads: "This is one of the 2 postmills still left standing (both ruinous) in Yorkshire. Ceased to work in 1918. One pair of stonbes still in mill. The timber base is in good conditioon and it is one of the rare specimens of an open base type of postmill: the earliest type of all wind mills. Notice beam for turning to wind"

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