Is it a Dalek?
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2022
- It looks like a giant Dalek, doesn't it? Julia and I visit Bursledon Windmill in Hampshire, and have a fabulous tour by Gary Freeman, the miller, and volunteer, Jane. Bursledon mill is a five-storey tower mill with a reefing stage at first floor level. The boat shaped cap is winded by a chain and wheel. The four Common sails are carried on a wooden windshaft, which also carries the wooden brake wheel.
The windmill site is owned by Hampshire buildings preservation trust, managed by Hampshire cultural trust which is funded by Hampshire County council Eastleigh borough council and Bursledon parish council also fund the windmill.
Visit the website: www.hampshireculture.org.uk/b...
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‘Show us your metal’ what a wonderful explanation for that commonly used expression. Lovely drone shots. I was so pleased to see that such a piece of the agricultural past has been preserved. A beautiful video. Thanks
Mettle😆
Excellent , very interesting and well put together. Well done both of you.
Very interesting video Richard and Julia.
I find it amazing how these lovely windmills were built and used all those years ago, fascinating!
They are amazing buildings, I agree.
Beautiful drone footage! What a fabulous place to visit. Looked like such a fascinating site & the info was so educational.
Many thanks!
Show us your metal and grinding to a halt sayings still used today Amazing
What a fantastic production. So informative. You were fortunate with the weather & the drone shots were exceptional. Wish you every success with your crop Richard & Julia!
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Many thanks!
What a fascinating place to visit! Thank you for sharing. I'm guessing that's where the phrase 'show us your metal' comes from. Loved the staddlestones and granary too!
A beautiful video Richard. Absolutely superb. We'll pop in to Bursledon Windmill when we go back to Brighton.
Thank you, Ernie.
In India, i have never seen such beautiful windmill. England is full of such fascinating things. good to know the mechanics behind such a huge wooden metallic capped windmill constructed next to the pond. wonderful work done but i could not properly understand sharpening windmill part of the video..but thanks to Richard for beautiful Drone view.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing this experience with us! Can't wait to watch your wheat being milled next year!
Us too!
"Mill Bill" sounds like a Tarantino film !
Fascinating and educational. Many thanks for sharing this one with us all. We really enjoyed learning more about how the windmill works and what a beautiful setting. Must visit one day.
Indeed, sharpening the mill stones is a thing I did not imagine was done. Learned something! :)
Me too!
Fascinating. I learnt several facts - particularly that mill stones need and can be sharpened, by a skilled craftsman who had "metal". Lovely drone footage too. Gary mentioned that there was an earlier mill adjacent to the current one. The dry weather revealed a subtle parch mark in the grass which is just visible from your drone.
Great video as ever, love the windmill, looks great inside and out, always good to see a bit of history, I do hope they put the sails back on would be great to see a fully working windmill.
Yes, Julia and I cannot wait to see it working perfectly!
Just discovered your channel recently,and have watched a lot of your episodes.very educational. great to see things,from the past,and ways of the past preserved.im loving the episodes,with julia.shes has a great personality.all the best, for the future sir.
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching our stuff.
Really very intresting, thanks to all
I remember visiting nearby manor farm on a school trip. I love these old buildings.What a lovely video with the drone footage included. Thanks so much. Xx
A delightful and informative video. I learnt a lot. And thank you so much for adding my favourite music at the start - I love it ♥️
You are so welcome!
Love this thank you so much for sharing it with us all. I’m from Lincolnshire and we have lots of mills here.
I miss visit someday!
Interesting piece of history and excellent drone footage. Hampshire is a beautiful county. Thanks Richard and Julia.
Fantastic video, about a magnificent piece of restoration work. Full of interest. A real education in the miller's art. Let's hope those sails are soon turning once again. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
Really enjoyed your video you make it so interesting, thank you both very much.
Thank you too!
Great video Ricahrd. To show one's mettle - really interesting stuff
That should read Richard
Brings back Super memory's of our walk with Richard and Julia just last Saturday where we visited one of these magnificent buildings. Also being of an age to remember Camberwick Green and Trumpton where Windy Miller resided. Windy loved this stuff called Cider which helped just in case he ever got hit by one of the sales sorry Sails. New words and some familiar ones learned. Sailing close to the wind anyone. David & Lily.
That was a fabulous video Richard, really interesting. I love windmills.
Very interesting. Thank you for all that historic information, especially as I have Millers in my ancestry (not windmill Millers though) and great Drone footage too 🙂
Very nice
Thanks
Fascinating. I can really smell the place. I must visit because it's very near a house where I was in hospital as a kid
... fasinating !
I visited a working windmill in Norfolk. Made some bread from their flour. I’m no master baker, but it was nice knowing where the flour had come from.
Thanks for the tour of the mill, I found that most interesting. Mills are the one thing that I have never been to, as I was quite content as a kid with steam trains, trams, boats and castles.
That brought back pleasant memories of my own visit to Bursledon mill (circa 2000). The sails were still up at the time & operational. At that time the millers name was Gavin. I can see the merits of having your own grain milled there.
Gavin was the miller for many years, I was his nipper until the time came for him to retire. Through many years of watching over the skills which he taught me I obtained the role as miller, I still see him from time to time he came by the mill the day this was filmed and had a catch up. We look forward to one day getting the sails back up and to have Richard and Julia to come and film a part2 mill in action.
Gary
fascinating Richard and Julia.Thankyou
Our pleasure, Jane.
Lovely interesting exploration of a windmill congrats
Super interesting! Thanks so much.
Very interested learn about inside windmill look great out doors and good history keep in windmill great video Richard and Julia
you WELSH???
Lovely story. Now, do one on the 'Oust houses' please
Great video. I have passed by the windmill on many occasions then traveling to the New Forest and when visiting nearby Manor Farm. They probably took their grain there for milling. Thanks for showing an important piece of our heritage, obviously well worth a visit.
Yes, well worth having a look.
Very interesting video Richard and Julia. So lovely that these places are still here to remind us of our history. It inspired me to attempt a Haiku.
Bursledon still, unyielding.
Millstones silent, hopper bare,
Listen! The bell rings!
Good to see a old windmill.
Jane was our lodger for several years in the 1980s!
Hi Bob
Your welcome to come visit anytime, Jane is here with me today although raining today. She said you’ve been interested in windmills as long as me and as long as I’ve been here for, If the sails were back it would be a good days milling to be had, I’ll ask Jane to forward my email to you so you could plan a visit at some point
Regards
Gary
@@bursledonwindmill83 Thank you for the note Gary. I look forward to that visit and Jane can show me around!
Wow another amazing documentary. That was brilliant. In fact the nostalgia of it all gave me a lump in my throat as they say. Thank you so much for educating me again. Constantly learning.
Very interesting video love it .great drone video thanks for telling us about it .lovely place to visit.
Stupendous!
Oh wow, this is just up the road from me. Thank you for the video
Brilliant opening shots . Very interesting. Saddle aka steddle stones.
Many thanks, Linda
Great Vlog, one of your best yet, many thanks. You get a glimpse speeding along the M27 but I've never got round to visiting. Interesting facts about showing your metal, sharping the stones (never know the miller did that) and the purpose of the balcony just like the one around the smock mill at Shipley you've been to a few times. Southampton is not one of my favorite places, sorry Julia! but it proves there are some nice places in the Southampton area.
BTW Shipley might be a good base for one of your walking groups? Plenty of parking, views of the mill (don't think it's open any more -might be wrong?) North to see the remains of the secret WW2 underground hideout and the pub at Dragons Green or East to Knapp park and the village I can't remember the name of - just off the A24.
It is a lovely mill, and yes, we learned a lot.
Excellent windmill - I especially enjoyed the drone footage. Learnt a lot in this video - show your metal - for instance!
Great Vlog !
You should do the whole job !
Plant the grain,
Grow the wheat,
Harvest the wheat, (by hand),
Thresh the wheat here, with the steam engine,
Then grind the flour !
What a great weekend of activities, to promote the mill, that would be !
How people would love to see that !
Stay safe !
Stu xx
That's part of the three stage plan Richard and I have at Ian's field. Last time we were at the field we cut the lawn to mark out the patch we hope to prepare for growing the heritage wheat 😃💜
Indeed, yes!
Hello Richard and the lovely Julia, looking forward to every video, thank you so much. But I seem to be the only one who gi es a like, I don't get it..... Wish you all the best 😘😘😘🤗🤗🤗
It’s because Richard doesn’t publish the likes so it doesn’t show how many there are.
@@MrGreatplum oh, ok👍👋Didn't know that, thank you😘
Thanks so much for the likes. Glad you enjoy the videos. Very kind of you to say so.
This was a nice informative piece as not overly familiar with windmill workings loved drone shots too good job it wasn't the dalek emporer then
Glad you enjoyed it
Ah, Derbyshire Millstone Grit where would we be without it, I wonder if the Staddle Stones are made from the same material? Surprising how volatile flour is! Excellent Vobavision production Richard and the Lovely Julia.
Thanks Zero G
Was the upper part of the Mill built by Shipwright's as it looks very much like a boat ?
Apparently, it is called a ship's cap.
Interesting. Loved the video !
where is the classic vobes intro music lovely video none the less love old windmills and informative as usual
Something I was waiting for you to ask, - how does grit from the stones get separated from the flour? There must be grit in it otherwise the stones wouldn't wear down.
I can't answer that, but surely the stone wear down with constant use - after all hundreds of tons of hard grain runs through them.
@@RichardVobes I suppose, as the stones must never touch, that the grit from wear of the stones is so fine that it doesn't notice in the flour anyway.
Are you and Julia a couple? You both get on very well with each other, thanks
Windy miller