[USED] Victorian and Edwardian Windmills and Watermills from old photographs
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J. Kenneth Major & Martin Watts, Hardback, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1983.
At the turn of the century there were still several thousand windmills and watermills engaged in flour-milling and in other agricultural, and industrial, work. But by the end of Great War the combined impact of steam power and electricity was already causing decline and decay - and today there is but a single windmill in profitable operation and no more than a dozen or so watermills. But their fascination remains, as is shown by this remarkable selection of photographs which begins exotically with Bayard's photograph of Montmartre in 1842 and continues to the end of the Edwardian period.
At the turn of the century there were still several thousand windmills and watermills engaged in flour-milling and in other agricultural, and industrial, work. But by the end of Great War the combined impact of steam power and electricity was already causing decline and decay - and today there is but a single windmill in profitable operation and no more than a dozen or so watermills. But their fascination remains, as is shown by this remarkable selection of photographs which begins exotically with Bayard's photograph of Montmartre in 1842 and continues to the end of the Edwardian period.
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