Exploring East Anglia | Windmill Chasing in Suffolk and Norfolk
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- This is the second part of my journey in Suffolk (and Norfolk, briefly) in search of windmills. As well as exploring some delightful mills, Windmill Bob, takes me to a windmill repair shop. Also, I wildcamp in my van in a beautiful village overnight.
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Loved hearing from the chap restoring the windmill parts, a true English treasure! As is Windmill Bob.
Bless you
Totally pleasing to meet you Windmill Bob, your knowledge,skills and passion of such grand and splendid constructed beings, that Windmills are, holds greatness. This is because you work and sculpt the wood needed for their becoming the magnificent structures they are. You and your friends, colleagues create a bridge to the souls of the people who have gone before, thank you for your gentle calm voice and sharing with us your knowing.
What lovely words Jenny. It glows the ole heart! It is great to have you watching. Thank you.
@@bpalive2005 kind you are, what a mass of solid gold souls be our group, a richness, affirmations galore and privilege it be for me.
The 26mins flew by. Bravo.
Absolutely classic stuff Richard. Windmills, oast houses & lighthouses. The unique and sought after buildings that once defunct, often continue into a second life as much cherished homes....
Windmills if I'm not mistaken, were used by that master-race the Dutch to assist with land drainage, over 60% of which is below sea level. An invention that must have been highly successful across the ever breezy flat lands of Holland.
I thoroughly enjoyed this and now loving the longer format. I have always had a fascination with windmills as I do the canal system.
Thanks, Jane.
Enjoy watching Suffolk with windmill Bob very interested to watch
That video was a TRIUMPH! Beautiful windmills, churches and countryside.
Thank you very much!
We have quite a few windmills around here. Some are homes, some are restored and occasionally opened up for the public to view. I find them fascinating!
I do love windmills, there's a couple of windmills near me Richard if your intrested in exploring or your ever in that area, I'll email you them if your intrested. Some lovely windmills in this video, it's cool that you were able to go inside to have a look. I think its also amazing that there are still people that restore and replace windmill parts, so good for our history and future, and it keeps people in jobs too which is excellent. And of course a lovely Church at the end, and some lovely properties also. Great video as always Richard.
What a wonderful vast area Suffolk and the whole of East Anglia is. So many of England's splendors reside outside the southeast. Thanks so much for showing us.
Richard this was great. I really enjoyed the interiors of the windmills and the workshop. Fascinating stuff to watch. You may already know this but you mentioned churches being remote from the nearby village. I heard years ago that this was due to plagues and epidemics etc. An infected village could move away from the perceived source of infection because the wooden houses were more ramshackle at the time. However, the stone built churches could not be moved so they stayed in the original location of the village. Once again lovely to watch you and Bob on your interesting tour.
Thank you so much!
It was great for Bob to impart his knowledge about windmill operations and show us the working s inside
Nice drone shots again
Love all your long format videos. Thank you Richard and Julia.
Great video, Richard, very entertaining & informative. Windmill Bob also has a calming, reassuring presenting style.
Absolute thrill. These videos are among
Your best work. Thank you.
So pleased you enjoyed it.
Another entertaining and informative episode with good ol’ Windmill Bob. Thank you for visiting our wonderful county.
Loving the long format videos, Richard. This took us on a trip down memory lane as we lived in the next village up the A143 from Billingford Mill, Thorpe Abbotts. Lovely way to spend half hour xx
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Great video Richard and even I was impressed by the drone shots! They showed off the windmills excellently in this gorgeous mellow autumn sunshine. At last this awful summer weather seems to have settled into lovely autumn weather. Typical! Suffolk is a rather overlooked county. My cousins all grew up there so I know a few places a little. One of my cousins owns a very fine inn at Burston just outside Diss on the border with Norfolk and if you do go back I recommend you go and eat there. You definitely won’t regret it. Best sticky toffee pudding in the world!
OOo, sticky toffee pudding - that is enough to get me on my way!
What I am noticing about these videos is how blighted this country seems to be now by car use and traffic noise.
That's not going to be a problem for much longer
Yes Jean far too noisy cars and lorries are, whatever the pro's and con's of electric vehicles, they would most certainly make it a pleasant, softer, less intrusive quiet life for us all.
This episode is absolutely wonderful, one of the most interesting. Suffolk is a beautiful county I agree.
Thanks very much, Rog.
Hi Richard. I love windmills like you do. We have one close to us at Wilton, near Marlborough, which can also operate on special occasions. Ah!Ruston and Hornby. They are in a class of their own. And Wow! Not one, but two mills close together. That workshop was incredible. Such skill by those who work there. It’s a labour of love.
Thanks B.E. i loved everything about that but I must add that the drone work is fantastic. You seem to have mastered the skill and used it brilliantly.
Wow, thanks!
Cracking video Richard, I must say the Drone footage add's a new dimension that's most enjoyable mucker.
Lovely interesting stuff! Good to know that skilled and knowledgeable people still exist...
Sadly Dave, so many people and their skills have been lost, a crime against humanity, as it has just been overridden, trashed and neglected, a very unwise move.
Absolutely loved this video - thank you. There's nothing quite like the sight of a windmill or Church tower across a landscape.
Suffolk and Norfolk are both beautiful counties. Particularly Norfolk for me where you can really escape traffic and just be surrounded by the sounds of nature
Glad you liked Suffolk, it’s lovely because it is off the radar and hopefully stays that way. I have recently moved from Suffolk to Sussex and it was a big culture shock. There is a low population in Suffolk and I’m still coming to terms with the crowds of Sussex. In Suffolk you can drive on the back roads across the county and hardly see a car.
I thoroughly enjoyed my explorations in that magical county.
I totally agree. When I drive to work cross country along the back lanes I hardly ever experience a car either behind me or infront of me, but it is at 6am!
Sometime ago I moved from Sussex to Suffolk
Fascinating !!!
Lovely walk through English history. More of this subject please. TA!
Loved this video. Thanks.
So glad!
Brilliant 👍👍
Excellent video I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
Awesome, thank you!
The pumpmill I visited last week in Norfolk now has electric back up but that went through the steam and diesel engins in its lifetime.
By far the best of these long formats that you’ve done - really well filmed, love the drone shots!
Another great VLog. many thanks. Two superb tower mills and the workshop was very interesting. Plenty more windmills in that area, I'm guessing, to let Windmill Bob show you round. Stupidly I had wondered what those large metal wheels were for on the walls of windmills (I've recently seen the windmill to the North of Ditchling you've done a previous log on and the one at Outwood to the NE of Crawley, both had them) to provide power from an static engine or traction engine. It clicked when the lovely old engine was shown. There are similar engines at Amberley Chalkpits museum. One was running very much like the one on show.
Hoping you are surviving your lockdown fine. At least you're missing the stupidity around petrol stations at the moment!
Fantastic videos Richard on Suffolk and Norfolk! My uncle used to live in Swaffham when I was but a mere youngster - yes Suffolk is lovely! Thank you for your very informative and interesting videos!
Just love the windmills. Thank you Windmill Bob for sharing. And Richard yes, a return to the area would be greatly appreciated.
Will do
Richard, I wanted to thank you for showing a part of Suffolk County. In 1990. while station in northern Germany, I planned a vacation (holiday) to visit Scotland, Wales, and England. In my plans, I wanted to visit where I was born. Born in Mildenhall, Suffolk. Unfortunately, those plans where stop, needed to go play in the sands of Saudi: Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm, so that vacation was gone. Some years later, I have been making plans to visit England, but something else got in the way: has a number in it. As I watched, I had a map of the county to see where everything was related to Mildenhall. I can say the coastal part of Suffolk is stunning. In addition, I understand the bit about isolation, as I went through it back in June. So chin up and all that good stuff. Again thank you and I look forward to more videos. God Bless
I will return when I can to explore more. It is a lovely place - thanks for sharing your history.
Another great & fantastic video of Quest for England | Windmill Chasing in East Anglia i go to East Anglia wen go n holiday to Great Yarmouth you would like it there to!.💕💕😉😉
Perhaps we could Crowdfund a week on the Norfolk Broads on a pleasure cruiser and explore?
My few visits to Suffolk have always impressed me. This video does too, the drone pieces really adding to it. Thanks
Thanks so much, Linda.
Nice two part jaunt with plenty of time for a bit of lingering. Cheers.
General Musing: I wonder if you'd film a meeting with Mrs. Crocombe, the cook at Audley End House. Carry on!
Theres even a windmill in Brixton Soùth London
These longer videos are nicely put together and enhanced by the drone shots . You get time to settle into watching them , they still retain the informal element , but you get the chance to use your filming and editing experience .
Thanks, Rich.
A subtle French theme going on here! I love the tricolore cockade painted on the fantail of the first windmill - and wasn't that café called le Dirty Cochon?! Lovely mills, thank you.
The red, white, and blue on the fantail was to commemorate Victoria's Jubilee! :)
@@RichardVobes How interesting, I assumed it wasn't actually the French Revolution comes to Suffolk but I never thought of Queen Victoria! Thank you.
That's some nice drone work in this video
Thanks 👍
I just came back from Suffolk....visiting family in Sudbury...love it there...you would love the surrounding areas like Long Melford, Clare, Lavenham etc... x
Sounds great!
Nice one Ricky!
Richard there are several windmills in sussex to some are still working. There was a water mill at woods mill near shoreham. I saw this working in the 1970s. Its closed down now part of woodland trust. Then thre is rottingdean windmill its part of a trust. Blachington mill, and jack and jill in clayton on ditchling beacon. There are others
Saw a windmill today on the A51 near Rugeley
that would be the one at Upper Longdon
@@bpalive2005 thanks I go past there a lot but only noticed it for the first time the other day
How do you feel about the new wind farm windmills? I know a lot of people don't like them but I also find them strangly beautiful!
I am afraid I do not like them. Two reasons, one, I think they scare the landscape by the numbers, like some Martian invasion, and second, they don't seem to really much use in the electric generating way.
@@RichardVobes its interesting to hear how other people view them.
Back in the day we knew all about renewable energy. Shame we lost so much of that!
I am sure they just called it energy then.
@@RichardVobes I'm sure they did!
Yes we were renewable energy experts once, but that was in a day when probably only 2 million people lived in the British Isles and it sufficed..
Yes back to suffolk with Julia?
Question richard the tags for these videos one has van trip UK but the other quest for England - why was that?
Because one was more about the van trip and the other was more about windmills.
Also is the term millwright similar to shipwright?
and wheelwright, yes.
Longer format occasionally better,but would prefer you use your normal talking voice!
What ever I do - I cannot please everyone!
@@RichardVobes
That's okay,just please me!
It does seem you may be aiming at a younger audience than is watching.
Nothing wrong with your normal speaking voice,it's always been fine in previous videos.
Still,what do i know,you're the professional!
Hi Richard, I have a proposition and was wondering, how one it’s in touch with you.
The best way is to email me - Richard at Vobes dot com
Think you are a great bloke but please stop looking into the camera so much .just try to ignore it ...love your videos keep up the good work
I look into the camera because I am addressing the audience watching! It comes from my BBC training!
@@RichardVobes authentic.. 👍🏻
@@RichardVobes we like to see you so please keep looking into the camera (as you rightly say, it’s what the professionals do)!! 😊 x
Also my dad was a journalist who is now 89 and has always said that you need to engage with the audience
Why do you have so any annoying 'experts' who make comments. Who always have a double ended sword. If you don't like it don't watch!
Really love the addition of your drone footage, adds an amazing new dimension to your excellent videos
Thanks so much, Brian.
What an education. That was brilliant. Your summing up of the windmills made me feel quite emotional. Loved every second. Thank you and Windmill Bob.
Brilliant thanks 🙏
You're very welcome
I've loved your Suffolk videos (my home county!). When you go back, you must visit Lavenham, Kersey (so many fantastic old buildings) and perhaps the coast - Covehithe and Shingle Street are very interesting places, to name just a couple. Oh, and Orford and Framlingham, with their castles, are amazing and full of history!
A lovely big smile on my Grumpy face now
Bob, well done. He's my Son-in-Law you know! Not many people can say that.
A triumph of using nature to accomplish human needs with rock, wood ,wind and all the other bits and bobs necessary to mill the corn. Thanks for the tour🖖🖖🖖👍👍👍🙋🏼♀️
Brilliant video. I've never visited Suffolk so thank you for the whistle stop tour. What an interesting county with lots of history, impressive windmills and beautiful landscape. 🇬🇧👍
Awsome video richard loved it...
We need our windmills back and village bakerys back post office all the things lost. stone masons Carpenters we need the old school workshops and aprentiships back to upkeep the windmills castles Historical buildings. our heritage must never be lost.
Late arrival here. I have loved every moment of this video Richard, homesick for the voices of my past. One day, maybe.... Thanks a million❤😊
The churches were for gentry farmers they had their own special pews. The rest of the congegation were worker on the estate. I guess some were smugglers too.
Bob - I stayed at the Horshoes when I came up and visited !
you did!!!