VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED!
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Please help as the existing company organisers have been looking after the Mill for 30 years plus and desperately need replacements.
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The Mill is kept going purely by voluntary effort, so if you are interested in helping, then please contact one of the Directors listed on the Mill Trust page of this site.
The Open Day afternoon Rota only requires say, one or two attendances during the season between April and September and can be; helping on the Shop or refreshment counter, the gate or step control for people entering the Mill on Guided Tours. New Mill Guides are also welcome as are workers helping with Mill and site management.
Or just come along - we work at the mill on most Thursday evenings and during the first and third Sunday mornings of every month.
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Newsletter
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The High Salvington Windmill Newsletter "The Mill" - December 2012
and the December 2011 "Miller's Talk" are now available on this website.
To read the Newsletter, please click here
To read the Miller's Talk , please click here
or choose 'Newsletter' from the menu. |
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Carols Evening Update
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The Friday 'Carols at the Mill' on the last Friday evening before Christmas was enjoyed by all on a thankfully fine evening by the firelight. Our thanks to Father Graham for his interest and help and presiding over the proceedings. Your generosity has again overwhelmed all the past records with the collection for the St Barnabas Hospice’s, reaching £500! WONDERFUL! Our sincere thanks. |
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Barn Dance & Barbecue
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 | Thanks to two arrangers, we unexpectedly had an evening with a Barbecue, for mainly Mill volunteers, which we hope to expand this year.
For more information, see the 'Times & Events' section here. |
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Summer Fete
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 | The Fete Committee are at work again, organising the ingredients now.
Despite the weather last July, we raised just over £3,000, which is our major finance event to maintain the Mill.
Our thanks go to them and all who helped us retrieve this event. |
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Help Wanted
The Committee still require our helpers on the day to 'get set up' please.
See the 'Contacts' page here. |
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The Mill
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The repaired sails and new stocks have been in use since 2004 for
free running during our Open Days and for grinding wheat to flour.
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Working on the new stock
We obtained a 40ft (12m) laminated larch beam and shaped it into a new stock to hold a pair of sails.
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Repairing the sails
The spring shuttered sails have been repaired, fitted to the stock ...
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Lifting the sail into position
... and lifted piece meal into position on the mill.
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Sails in position again
The back stays and sail shutters were replaced, in situ, ready for grinding.
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The Shop
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Shop sales help Mill sails turn
The shop is a success within the Barn area
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West Blatchington Sails
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The Sail Makers
During the summer of 2011 at High Salvington Windmill, a complete set of four new mock Sails were made for the Barn Smock Tower Mill of West Blatchington Windmill, Hove.
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Work on the sails required 11 mortises through each of the 4 main wips, to house each sail bar assembly. Hemlaths joined each of the ends, with an uplong parallel to the wips. 5 back stays are added to the rear tip of the sail for support.
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The Installation work
Removing the last two old sails. The new sails, (as shown in the horizontal position) were fitted earlier after preparation of the fixings, whilst in a vertical position.
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A further 6 back stays are fitted at the rear of each sail, to the stocks when on the Mill.
All work was carried out by a combined team from High Salvington, West Blatchington and Jill Mills.
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