NOTES: Built for Thomas and Isaac Reckitt in 1819 by the Hull millwrights Norman & Smithson, this windmill ground corn that was brought in by barge along the Maud Foster Sluice, built by John Rennie in 1807. It was a working mill until it was closed in 1942. The windmill was preserved as a landmark in 1953.
NOTES: Built for Thomas and Isaac Reckitt in 1819 by the Hull millwrights Norman & Smithson, this windmill ground corn that was brought in by barge along the Maud Foster Sluice, built by John Rennie in 1807. It was a working mill until it was closed in 1942. The windmill was preserved as a landmark in 1953.
SOURCE: J. G.Veldheer and W. O. J. Nieuwenkamp. Alte hollandische Stadte und Dorfer an der Zuidersee (Leipzig, 1902), pl. 22 NOTES: Nieuwendam is now a neighbourhood of north Amsterdam.
NOTES: This open-air museum, one of the world's first, was established by Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) and opened in 1891. Historical buildings (homes, farms, windmills, a school and a church) from nearly every part of Sweden have been acquired and re-erected on the site.
NOTES: The Old Town is a state certified national museum of Danish cultural history and opened to the public in 1914. The museum's director, Peter Holm, from the beginning in 1909 and until he retired in 1945, succeeded in saving 50 historic market-town houses from demolition as well as finding the funds to re-erect these houses as The Old Town.