Jill

Would you believe that this is Jill?

Again, quoting from Clayton Windmills:

"As she then stood she was a large three-floor head-and-tail mill equipped with two pairs of overdrift stones; a pair of peaks in the head for grinding such as barley or oats and a pair of French Burrs in the tail for producing wheatmeal.
A belt, driven by a skew-gear-meshed layshaft across the back of the brakewheel, drove a flour dresser. This type of drive is typical of Medhurst's work elsewhere.
She was winded by the Sussex Tailpole Fantackle and powered by four patent sweeps. These were controlled by a conventional weight wheel and chain on the back of the mill. Here again details of the striking gear used are of the Medhurst pattern."

For film buffs (in Blognor) In 1973 Jack and Jill became the setting of the thriller The Black Windmill starring Michael Caine.


[File under: Sussex Walk, Patcham, Jack and Jill Windmills, Ditchling Beacon]