Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph of Stelling windmill. Part 4 of a series of 5 showing new sweeps being fixed. Annotated "2 July 1935. The shutter gear is then adjusted".
Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph of Stelling windmill. Part 3 of a series of 5 showing new sweeps being fixed. Annotated "27 June 1935. The midlings are next bolted to the cannister". Shows a man astride the midlings - in position on the windmill.
View of the Ta' Kola Windmill in Xaghra, Gozo, Malta, dating back to the Knights' Period in 1725 showing the sails. It follows the Maltese plan of construction with rooms on two floors surrounding the centrally placed stone tower which houses the milling mechanism.
Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
Charlie Ball (left) and his son (second left) from the millwright firm of Christy and Norris are making a new stock and sails in the grounds of the Mill. On the right is Fell Christy (aged 25), the son of the owner of Christy and Norris, in his first year with the firm after attending university. The fourth person is unidentified.
During a storm the stock of the forward sail snapped. Here millwright Vincent Pargeter is making safe the damage and removing parts of the striking gear.