Fan staging on a post mill at Tottenhill, Norfolk, 1936. Artist: HES Simmons

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Fan staging on a post mill at Tottenhill, Norfolk, 1936. The fantail is a device for rotating the mill in order to keep the sails facing the wind at all times. As the wind changes the fan carriage moves around a trackway thus turning the mill.

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Size: 3570px × 5297px
Location: World,Europe,United Kingdom,England,Norfolk
Photo credit: © Reproduced by permission of Historic England/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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