February 08 - New dates for your
diary added below
September
- December 2007: The scaffolding and fencing has finally
been removed following the external renovation done by York Council.
All the lime render has been applied to the outside walls, so once
it has dried (by spring 2008), we will be able to paint it the traditional
black colour. Visit our restoration
page for more information.
Eric Daniels (Helens dad) has kindly made some shutters to protect
the ground floor windows and these are now in place.
HWPS has finally signed the lease with York council, so the trustees
are now officially in charge of Holgate Windmill!
We have had a massive boost to our finances with a fantastic donation
of £20,000 from York Conservation Trust. Thank you so much
for this much needed help. The photograph on the left shows the
cheque being handed to Bob by Phillip Thrake and Christine Allpress
of York Conservation Trust.
The society held two large fundraising events over the last couple
of months. In November, we held a sponsored 'Storming the walls'
event, with many society members and friends walking round the city
walls. This was a very high profile event, covered by the Yorkshire
Evening Press and many people made donations, and these, along with
the sponsor money, meant we raised £4,000 for the society.
Santa also visited the mill on the first two weekends in December
and was kept extremely busy handing out presents to hundreds of
children, and raising £700 in the process.
Bob has also worked his magic again and secured us funding of nearly
£98,000 from Grantscape, an environmental grant-making charity.
This extra money means that we will be able to fully restore one
set of stones and all the machinery required to drive them by wind
power. This means that by 2009, with this work completed and the
sails in place, we should be producing flour from Holgate Windmill
by wind power. The dream is becoming a reality.
In 2008
we hope to continue with the next phase of works. This will see
us working towards completing the following projects:
> Paint exterior brickwork and interior walls.
> Complete and lift in (by crane), the new cap.
> Install electric motor to power one set of stones.
> Add sail shutters and restore wind powered drive.
> Renew floorboards & stairs
> Add a sack hoist.
Other
pages you may wish to visit
Dates for your Diary for forthcoming events.
On January 18th we will be hosting 'Holgate - An Illustrated Talk'
which will be a really informative look at our local history.
Restoration
for information and photos of recent work
How To Help either
hands on or with a donation.
Millnews for past copies of our newsletters.
Membership
to join the society.
News Archive archived 'What's New'
articles.
Dates
for your diary
Mill
Open Days 2008
The mill will be open on the weekend of 10th & 11th May to celebrate
National Mills Weekend, and then on the first weekend of every month
over the summer period. Visit our Open Day
page for more details. The dates are as follows:
11th & 12th May (National Mills Weekend).
7th & 8th June
5th & 6th July (Also see 'Open Gardens' below)
2nd & 3rd August
6th & 7th September
4th & 5th October
Open Gardens 2008
Sunday 6th July - Local residents have offered
to open their gardens once again for our annual open gardens day.
This is always a great day out - and it coincides with a mill open
day so you can visit the mill as well. Contact Jen Hay (01904 792638)
for more details.
Halloween
Stories
Friday October 31st - Jan Hepworth will be reading
scary childrens stories in the mill between 5:30-6:30pm. Bring your
children along for a great (trick or) treat. We'll post more details
here as we have them.
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