Common and Spring Sails - Green's Mill
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Common and Spring Sails - Green's Mill
Image: © Ashley Dace Taken: 14 Nov 2010
The horizontal sails are the simplest (common sails), a wooden lattice over which a cloth was placed. This with a good wind turned the sails. Adjustments need the milling to pause. The vertical sails are spring sails, these are shutters on a spring, again these need adjustment by the miller and thus a pause. These are early sails, in the 19th C patent sails meant sails didn't need the mill to stop, all was automatic. Image] Image]
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Image Location
Latitude
52.952394
Longitude
-1.130127