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EXCLUSIVE: Last Surviving Isle Of Wight Windmill Has Makeover
By Iona Stewart-Richardson
Bembridge Windmill
The last surviving windmill on the Isle of Wight is getting a makeover - which will mean it doesn t need any maintenance for the next 30 years.
EXCLUSIVE
Owners, National Trust say new sails (known as sweeps) and their timber beam supports, are being put back on the mill this week - after they were taken off before the pandemic because they were going rotten.
Father and son millwrights Geoff and John Wallis from Dorothea Restorations are using a crane and a cherry picker to lift the heavy timber sails (known as sweeps) and their new supporting 11m beams (known as stocks) almost 50ft in the air and bolt them into position.
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