Windmills are not only in Amsterdam....

            This is an 8 stitch portrait shot pano of The City of Nottingham. Taken on a very dull day so I hope to get another on a fine or even dramatic weather day. Meanwhile this rather hazy shot is the best pano I could manage under the circumstances. For those wondering this was shot 1.8 miles by car from my home and even closer as the crow flies on foot - err if you know what I mean lol..I live less than a mile from the actual city and have never lived further than six mile from the city. A prominent and well known feature in Nottingham is Greens Mill which is a very popular tourist attraction. As i said I hope to get a better day to do this again but meanwhile I was quite pleased with the best pano I personally shot so here it is in its dismal day glory....

In the 1800s England suffered from poor corn harvesting and had difficulties with importing grain due to the Napoleonic Wars, because of this, the price of grain increased resulting in the people of Nottingham not being able to afford bread. 

"August - Notwithstanding that the last day of this month was a Sunday, it was marked as the commencement of a serious riot. A great increase in the price of provisions, more especially of bread, had roused the vindictive spirit of the poorer classes to an almost ungovernable pitch. They began late in the evening, by breaking the windows of a baker in Millstone Lane, and in the morning proceeded, with an increase of numbers and renewed impetuosity, to treat others of the same trade in the same unwelcome manner. Granaries were broken into at the canal wharves, and it was distressing to see with what famine-impelled eagerness many a mother bore away corn in her apron to feed her offspring."

It is possible that the baker referred to is a Mr Green who had a bakery near the Market Square also had grain stored beside the Nottingham Canal. His bakery was attacked, and he plead the Mayor for assistance. Mr Green's son, George, was seven years old at the time, helped his father by working in the bakery. George went on to become the greatest scientists of his time, a mathematician whose work is known and used around the world.

Extracted from an interesting account about the Mill and George Green the very famous Scientist and Mathematician. A visit to the Mill post Covid that is - really is a must. For many year I lived on Windmill Lane and the Mill only a hundred yards from my door..

I thank all everyone for leaving a fave or a comment and truly appreciate every single one and at 20.02 have just managed to catch up with hopefully everyone’s photography. I found several photos popped into my email 3days late which is annoying and I didn’t see them in my Flickr feed either which I run through each evening to check fo new photos. Got a headache again 😏

Taken on: January 10, 2021

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