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Fan staging on a post mill at Tottenhill, Norfolk, 1936. Artist: HES Simmons

Fan staging on a post mill at Tottenhill, Norfolk, 1936. Artist: HES Simmons

1-231-079 - Reproduced by permission of Historic England/Heritage Images

Fan staging on a post mill at Tottenhill, Norfolk, 1936. The fantail is a device for rotating the mill in order to keep the sails facing the wind at all times. As the wind changes the fan carriage moves around a trackway thus turning the mill.

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Creator
  1. HES Simmons, attributed to: (British?): Photographer
Medium
  1. Photograph
Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe United Kingdom England Norfolk

  1. 52 40 00 N , 001 00 00 E
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3570x5297
File Size : 55,402kb

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  1. W 660
  1. 0250000637
  1. 1-231-079
  1. 1231079
  1. 637
  1. A3
  1. W 660

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