We are very grateful to our neighbours in Mill Close for putting up with the enormous crane being parked in their street for half a day. Special thanks to the neighbours who allowed people to stand on their drives and lawns to get a better view of the cap lift.
Photos below. Video at very bottom of the page.
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| Not an Anthony Gormley sculpture but one of the millwrights preparing to attach the crane to the mill's temporary roof. As seen from Saxon Drive. |
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| The temporary roof is removed. |
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| The millwrights prepare the cap to take the fantail. |
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| The fantail is lifted from the museum site. |
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| Fantail lowered in to place. |
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| With the fantail attached the cap is prepared for lifting. |
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| Cap lifting. Photo by millwright Steven from the top of the mill tower. |
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| Another view from the top of the mill by Steven. You can see some local residents watching the lift. |
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| Guiding the cap into position as it's lowered. |
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| Millwright Neil lowers the cap the last few centimetres using the chain blocks. |
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| The chains and strops are now slack meaning the cap is in place. |
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| Safety rails for the fantail stage are attached to the crane. |
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| Safety rails lowered on to the scaffolding for Neil to put in place on the fantail stage. |
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| View from across Mill Close |
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| View from Saxon Drive. |
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| Inside the cap |
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| Inside the cap |
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| Inside the cap |
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| The mill site looking tidier and bigger with the safety fence removed and the grass cut. |
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| This where the cap sat from 13th March 2013 until 29th August 2013. The grass will grow back soon. |
VIDEO
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