Windmills

Windmills The repercussions of war are as unexpected as they are inexorable and endless.  The latest of victims are our few ancient windmills.  Of recent years about half-dozen of these time-honoured memorials of agricultural England were put back into working order again.  One would have thought that such engines worked by wind alone and needing no fuel to drive them would have been of economical value to the war machine.  Apparently, this is not so.  The Ministry of Food say that owing to transport local milling is not practicable. Everything…