Holgate Windmill

Holgate Windmill isn't featured on tourist maps; can't remember how we learned of it, but so glad we did.
It was the last grain windmill in the area before giving up in 1932. It had been upgraded with steam power for windless days, but that wasn't enough ro keep it competitive with the new, electric mills. Those new ones also switched to using rollers to crush the grain rather than using millstones to grind it. In 2001, a group of seventeen civic-minded folk formed a sort of "friends of . . ." organization. By 2011 they had it operating again. They regularly mill wheat to sell to visitors or certain bakeries in York.
We loved the highly personalized and long tour. It wasn't windy enough to mill, so we didn't see it in action. The docents stationed themselves one per floor. As we ascended, we learned all about windmills - but in a backwards fashion as the process begins after they haul bags of wheat to the top floor by the most clever chain and floor doors that swing open and closed.
I think all the other seventeen members were there, too, and each had something to add and explain to us.
The windmill isn't far from the York train station, situated in a middleclass neighbor in the middle of a traffic circle.
When you see us coming with our photos and travel tales, be prepared: it will take awhile for us to stop talking about it.
What, did you think I'd go to Great Britain and not show you a picture of a windmill!