Bonne-Chière Mill
Wooden post mill on a ramparts mound, its welded steel sails never once put to work grinding grain.
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This guide to Bonne-Chière Mill in Bruges opens in nineteen eleven, when Emmanuel De Cloedt handed over five thousand francs believing he was funding a working windmill on a ramparts rise where wind had turned machinery since the fourteen hundreds. It traces the string of mills that stood here before, including one that toppled into the canal in a storm in nineteen oh three, and follows the decision to buy a secondhand mill near Olsene and cart it here board by board. Crowds gathered for its inauguration in July nineteen eleven, expecting the sails to get to work. Look up at the millstone still waiting on the top floor.
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