Yet Another Backblip........

..............to catch up on missed days whilst Mr. Laptop was poorly!! He is quite recovered, I am delighted to report!!

The Maud Foster Windmill in Boston, Lncolnshire UK is a seven-storey, five sail windmill located by the Maud Foster Drain in Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, from which she takes her name. She is one of the largest operating windmills in England being 80 feet (24.38 m) tall to the cap ball.

One of the best sited and proportioned mills in the County, this beautiful tower mill was erected for Thomas and Isaac Reckitt in 1819 by the Hull millwrights Norman and Smithson to grind corn that was brought in by barge along the drain. The original drawings and accounts survive, telling us that it cost £1826-10s-6d, which was a large sum in those days. It shows just how far advanced millwrighting was in this area by 1819, with all-iron gearing, patent sails and a tall, well-proportioned, and untarred tower showing the fine masonry. In her heyday in the mid-19th-century, five- and sixed-sailed windmills were not that rare and unusual as they are today.
In 1987 the mill was bought by James Waterfield and his family who restored her in 1988 to fully working order being now the most productive windmill in all England. Visitors may climb all seven floors and see the milling process in action as well as enjoy fine views of the town from the balcony. Maud's tearoom in the old granary serves morning coffee, lunches and afternoon teas on some days,with good old-fashioned home baking and local specialities on the menu. The mill shop sells flour, porridge and good quality souvenirs as well as local history books.

A dreary day - some very heavy rain and a strong wind but the Mill looked even more impressive against the rather threatening sky.

Hope your weather was better than ours!!