Halnaker Windmill

[petewayne]

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Atop Halnaker Hill stands Halnaker Windmill, now just a shell looking out across the Sussex plain.

 

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[Michael Hiles]

These pictures have gone unappreciated. I quite like #1 particularly.

[cocker]

Nice photographs. Do you know the Belloc Poem? Beautifully set to music by Ivor Gurney and also by Peter Warlock.

 

 

Ha'nacker Mill

 

Sally is gone that was so kindly,

Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill

And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;

And ever since then the clapper is still...

And the sweeps have fallen from Ha'nacker Mill.

 

Ha'nacker Hill is in Desolation:

Ruin a-top and a field unploughed.

And Spirits that call on a fallen nation,

Spirits that loved her calling aloud,

Spirits abroad in a windy cloud.

 

Spirits that call and no one answers --

Ha'nacker's down and England's done.

Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers,

And never a ploughman under the Sun:

Never a ploughman. Never a one.

 

Hilaire Belloc

[Alan Philpotts]

Thanks Keith - so that's why this rang a bell.

Pete - I agree with Michael that #1 is the best.

Nice work.

Regards

Alan

[petewayne]

thanks for the comments and reminding me of Belloc's poem.......and truly captures a place of beauty.