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An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

It's the only open day of the year, and the first for ages, for the Billingford Windmill, and we'd only known about it because we had to swing by via Brockdish in order to pick Harry up from a sleep over. We rock up just in time to catch a short guided tour of the newly-restored windmill, having seen the installation of the new sail posts in the lockdown of 2020.

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We walk through the woods at Billingford Common, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

We walk through the woods at Billingford Common

Isobel roams around, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Isobel roams around

Billingford Windmill with its new sails, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Billingford Windmill with its new sails

Isobel fills in the contact form, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Isobel fills in the contact form

The tour of the windmill starts, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The tour of the windmill starts

A cobwebby window, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

A cobwebby window

Windmill gears, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Windmill gears

A cobwebbed chain , An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

A cobwebbed chain

A close-up of gears, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

A close-up of gears

The wheels guiding the windmill's cap, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The wheels guiding the windmill's cap

Inside the restored windmill cap, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Inside the restored windmill cap

A load of wound-up chain, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

A load of wound-up chain

The tour talk continues, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The tour talk continues

Harry and Fred, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Harry and Fred

In the windmill, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

In the windmill

The actual millstones, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The actual millstones

The big gear driving the millstones, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The big gear driving the millstones

Fred looks up a grain shute, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Fred looks up a grain shute

Harry and Fred, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Harry and Fred

The underside of a millstone, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The underside of a millstone

Looking out from the windmill, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Looking out from the windmill

A spare millstone, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

A spare millstone

The dude on the ticket desk, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The dude on the ticket desk

The shepherd hut café, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The shepherd hut café

Out on Billingford Common, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Out on Billingford Common

A blue chair in the grass, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

A blue chair in the grass

We stop for a drink, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

We stop for a drink

The Horseshoes pub and the old post office, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The Horseshoes pub and the old post office

Isobel outside the shepherd hut, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Isobel outside the shepherd hut

The windmill again, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The windmill again

The boys are in a tree, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

The boys are in a tree

Fred bounces around on the spring branch, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Fred bounces around on the spring branch

Harry and Fred, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Harry and Fred

Isobel does her phone in the woods, An Open Day at the Windmill, Billingford, Norfolk - 21st August 2021

Isobel does her phone in the woods

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We walk through the woods at Billingford Common

We walk through the woods at Billingford Common

Isobel roams around

Billingford Windmill with its new sails

Isobel fills in the contact form

The tour of the windmill starts

A cobwebby window

Windmill gears

A cobwebbed chain

A close-up of gears

The wheels guiding the windmill's cap

Inside the restored windmill cap

A load of wound-up chain

The tour talk continues

Harry and Fred

In the windmill

The actual millstones

The big gear driving the millstones

Fred looks up a grain shute

Harry and Fred

The underside of a millstone

Looking out from the windmill

A spare millstone

The dude on the ticket desk

The shepherd hut café

Out on Billingford Common

A blue chair in the grass

We stop for a drink

The Horseshoes pub and the old post office

Isobel outside the shepherd hut

The windmill again

The boys are in a tree

Fred bounces around on the spring branch

Harry and Fred

Isobel does her phone in the woods