Restoring Saxtead Green Post Mill | 13th-Century Corn Mill In Suffolk

Situated in Suffolk’s picturesque countryside, Saxtead Green Post Mill is a 13th-century corn mill that remained in use up until 1947. Hear from millwright Tim Whiting as he details Saxtead’s extensive history and how English Heritage is restoring this windmill to its former glory.
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[@JadeStrawberry]

It really shows how strong and the teamwork it took from the people who originally built the mill. It's great it's being restored.

[@carolinebennett5615]

Great work. Real craftsmanship. And such an iconic structure.

[@hajnalkapukler8932]

Congratulations! A respectable historic and cultural salvation. On behalf of the contemporary and posterity, THANK YOU! ♥️

[@salzaniclegend4129]

Amazing restoration.

[@joyclark9866]

It's a wonderful place and I'd just like to say thank you very much for taking all that time yesterday to go through the history of the Mill and the family involvement in it all. It was thoroughly enjoyable and very informative and made such a difference to my visit. xx

[@buzzybee8463]

This Beautiful Mill belongs to my Auntie and Uncle i spent many happy days there ❤

[@Fulgrim2]

Nice to see it brought back to life.

[@bcgrote]

There is a great joy in seeing a working mill. Perhaps it's my Norfolk heritage...

[@anncarrington9784]

I'm interested how the mill builders got the sails up with out a crane in the past , thanking you for a very interesting talk

[@roseflowers7641]

I hope this will be revisited once its restoration is complete, it would be nice to see it functioning.

[@cynthiat6505]

What a blessing! Thank you!

[@alxxxx70]

wow, I must arrange to go and see this windmill

[@bellab8639]

His voice is so calming

[@Poultrymad]

How on Earth did they originally fit the sails without modern equipment? It must have been very difficult.

[@wiltothecollector4420]

This is the traditional technique: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6fPk3maiqqBY6c

[@Janawrites]

Great video, thank you!

[@user-oj5bw7sl8p]

Excellent video, thank you for sharing!

[@GiveMeStren]

Wonderful!

[@hollygolightly8048]

Amazing craftsmanship, especially the intentionally bent blades, and I can’t find anyone to replace a few shingles on my house that have been damaged... lol

[@sonnenhut2868]

Very interesting story and a pleasant man .... 👍🏻

[@stef1lee]

I'm an American Millwright and our work is a bit different from the millwright work in the UK. Though both of us work on rotating equipment...it looks as though yours entails crafting with wood. I'm refinery, cogeneration and chemical plants. Pumps, compressors, gas and steam turbines, gearboxes, fin fans (kinda like your wind mill but nose cone up and blades come already made. We just set the pitch, tracking, tip clearance, sheaves, belts, motor alignments), laser alignments... It's fun but no wood work. I loved the video. I got to see another aspect of what millwrights were first before they evolved into machine mechanics. My great grandfather would have worked on old mills like that. Super cool!

[@emmaflint6126]

Brilliant video!

[@pintobean4919]

Oh so so beautiful! I love the background to this video. Love that rustic setting, gives it a charming look and that kind of setting is so stress relieving when you can go to that, take a long deep breath of that fresh air, and enjoy the beautiful setting. I would live to visit that area. Where I use to live there is a recreational park nearby and you can drive this sort of long winding road until you get the the main attraction of this spring coming up out of the deep ground and hear it trickle down in the creek. The water is so crisp and clean, and so cold. It is the best water I have ever tasted. I'm surprised some rich person make a deal with the recreational people who are over that and make decisions and occasionally grant people to do things in those parks, but I'm not surprised that someone havnt tried to bottle that water to sell! Or maybe they did and got turned down. But it's the best water I have ever tasted. It's even more delicious when you get it in winter it's very cold almost 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and idk why it tastes even better than it already has. The place in this video is absolutely beautiful!

[@tallpojjy]

An excellent video

[@mirel604]

Beautiful!

[@colleennikstenas4921]

So the sails aren't covered then? I always imagined they had oilcloth or something on them.

[@lilithr.z.139]

They would normally I believe if the mill were still in production; The fabric of sails gets worn out quickly and takes very frequent maintenance, so they probably don't have them covered frequently in the modern day.

[@EnglishHeritage]

Thanks for the comments and interest. Shutters will be loaded back onto the sails, but that's done at a later stage to the work featured in the film. Once the sails are fitted, they leave the mill to 'wind' (where the fly on the back of the mill spins so the whole mill can turn), to make sure all is working okay, and then the shutters will be added back on.

[@martynnotman3467]

Beautiful. Also Tim is gorgeous.

[@jhernandez891]

Lovely

[@sheenatozier8343]

AMAZING!!!!!

[@fabrizioviscardi40]

Very interesting video!

[@wardefiant]

Yes we need info on how the original sails were mounted. My thought would be temporary dirt hills to drag the sails up or scaffolding that you later remove. Great video.

[@barbroevanderlindquist4128]

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Good

[@tracyfeldwick4311]

Exquisite

[@utoobr10]

Lovely video.

[@rdhunkins]

Will the mill be set working again, or be just a static display?

[@EnglishHeritage]

Hi Bob, thanks for the comment. While the mill probably won't actually be used for doing any actual milling, it will be open to visit (see here for opening times: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/saxtead-green-post-mill/) and all the machinery is still in working order so you can get a real sense of the history. As to whether the sails will be turning, that'll be a day-to-day decision (depending on weather amongst other things), but either way, it's a beautiful site to visit if you can.

[@paulwomack5866]

To fit the sails "that way" (a crane taller than the top of a sail, mounted vertically upwards), at Sutton mill would have taken a 120 foot crane (roughly) which I don't think was around "in the old days". www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/sutton-towermill.html

[@paulwomack5866]

Where (the "heck") does one buy lead paint, these days?

[@Beaguins]

Is this mill grinding grain? It would be cool if it was a working mill.

[@EnglishHeritage]

Thanks very much for the comment. It's not being used to grind any grain at the moment, but is being restored to working condition. It remains to be seen whether it does get used for any actual milling, but regardless it's a beautiful site and we hope you can visit it one day.

[@SiansBookcases]

Have driven past it

[@グッジョブボタンに愛される人間]

字幕が出てません！

[@mirandamom1346]

Who knew one can still buy leaded paint?

[@L16htW4rr10r]

They either buy it or make it by their own

[@yvonnerogers6429]

💯👍🏻❤️🙏

[@dazaspc]

I have a question. How can you have a 13th century corn mill when corn was first discovered in the new world. It was brought back in 1492. So there is at least 200 years gap here. What was the mill originally set up for and why wouldn't you use it's original designation?

[@CathyS_Bx]

"Corn" is the English word for any grain product. In the New World, the word got specified for what was properly called maize.

[@dazaspc]

@@CathyS_Bx No worries never heard or read of that before

[@anncarrington9784]

I think the term corn (American corn on the cob ) has got mix up with English wheat which is also called corn. America's corn on the cob make corn flour, English wheat makes bread flour .I hope you're find this explains what you wanted to know .

[@shammydammy2610]

www.etymonline.com/search?q=corn

[@Beaguins]

@@anncarrington9784 Maize (what Americans like myself call corn) used to be called Indian corn, which got shortened to corn. Unfortunately that makes things confusing when reading old books. Like I mentioned in a reply below, when Pharaoh dreamed of thin ears of corn eating fat ears of corn (Genesis 41, KJV), he obviously wasn't dreaming of a New World crop.

[@horrormetaldoll]

I was born in 1984

[@teacup7044]

Grain mill would have been a better choice of words, corn came from the America"s where it was farms by the indigenous people's.

[@Beaguins]

"Corn" just means "grain." The word has been used that way for many centuries (think of the story in the Bible where Pharaoh dreamed of thin ears of corn eating fat ears of corn - obviously he wasn't dreaming of maize / Indian corn). The crop you're talking about used to be called Indian corn and then got shortened to just corn, hence the confusion when people read old books.

[@shammydammy2610]

No. Corn has been used in the English language to mean grain for hundreds of years before America was founded. www.etymonline.com/search?q=corn