Posted in Trips at 12:00 on 1 April 2025
Inside Sebaldeburen Windmill there were several windmill related displays.
Models of windmills:-

Another set of windmill models had electrically driven sails:-
Cutaway model:-

Collectables:-

Hanging embroidery depicting various Dutch windmills. (Hanging embroideries like this seem to be a Dutch thing):-

Pictures of windmills:-

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Posted in Trips at 12:00 on 27 March 2025
I posted photos of the windmill’s exterior here.
Internal machinery:-
Again this video is on its side:-
There’s a glass “window” in the windmill’s floor so that you can see the water flowing under it:-

Video. The flow is quite noisy:-
There were live cams round the windmill with their feeds displayed on a screen:-
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Posted in Trips at 12:00 on 25 March 2025
The Netherlands are famous for windmills but though we had been in that country several times we hadn’t actually visited a windmill there till last June. It was the one at Sebaldeburen in Groningen Province. There was some kind of open day on so we could see inside.

There is a model of the windmill just at the end of the drive:-


In this photo the operator is adjusting the angle the windmill makes with the wind to maximise efficiency. Windmill model to right:-

The windmill lifts water from a ditch (to the left in background) into a canal 1½ metres higher (to the right) by means of an Archimedes screw. A full size model of the screw is at left of photo.
The canal:-

This is the Archimedes screw in operation:-
Windmill turning. For some reason the video is turned by 90 degrees:-
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