A recent business trip to Norwich took me past a number of Windmills, although not in use their presence in the landscape is an attractive addition, being as they are on a human scale, whereas their modern equivalents have no such attraction for me. Here is one of the mills I snapped as I went by, I did stop the car first I might add.
A late headmaster from Aberford Primary School, a Mr W. Pickles undertook a collection of water colours depicting local scenes, the picture above is one from the collection, It’s the windmill adjacent to the old road (Windmill Hill) between Aberford and Lotherton that was diverted in the 1960’s to facilitate the A1 bypass, since realigned in the 1990’s to accommodate the A1-M1 Link. According to details from the local publication Aberford in Times Past
To give an idea of the location of the windmill see the animation below, which is taken from the tower on the Aberford Almshouses looking north east over the former Catholic Church.
