Liverpool Windmills

**ChrisGeorge** · 12-03-2010

Originally Posted by Ged

Plenty of the Wilson King silo on here: http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=43514575&cr=7

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Hi Ged

I looked but did not see any of the Toxteth mill. Wrong page maybe?

C

**ghughesarch** · 12-03-2010

A picture which explains very well why windmills went out of use. In a windy week, a mill like Great Crosby would do well to fill two or three of the carts full of flour sacks in this photo of the Liverpool North Shore steam mills (and a small mill like Wavertree would do well to fill one). All the carts shown, combined, are carrying one day's output from North Shore [IMG]

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Woolton windmill, built 1810, before and after the fire which gutted it in 1898
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Ainsdale Mill, converted to steam power (demolished about 1970):
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And another view of the Newsham Park windpump that started this thread:
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