2012 Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the Windmill

2012. The 'dressed' windmill

Hallmark August 2012. report by Michael Hardy

For the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, we opened the windmill on three afternoons, over which we had 98 visitors despite two of the afternoons being very wet.

We had decided to dress the windmill for the occasion with bunting, but | also added a couple of Union Jacks on the top sails. There were plenty of flags flying locally, but as the windmill is on ground 745 feet above sea level, and these flags were 55 feet above the ground, I think that they must have been amongst the highest flags for many miles around, flying at 800 feet above sea level.

Many thanks to John Burnett and Bob Gosling for helping me to put the decorations on the windmill on the Friday, and remove them on the Wednesday.