{"id":986,"date":"2016-11-25T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=986"},"modified":"2016-12-20T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:09:16","slug":"high-wych-windmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"High Wych Windmill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hertfordshire University Press just published an interesting book about the history of windmills in\u00a0 our county. \u00a0 Entitled &#8221; Wind , Water and Steam&#8221; it was written by Hugh\u00a0 Howes.\u00a0 It is, as they say, available through all good bookshops and I can thoroughly recommend it.\u00a0 If you are interested, you can find more information on : \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herts.ac.uk\/uhpress\/books-content\/wind,-water-and-steam\"> http:\/\/www.herts.ac.uk\/uhpress\/books-content\/wind,-water-and-steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1870-high-wych-windmill003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-988 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1870-high-wych-windmill003-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"1870-high-wych-windmill003\" width=\"525\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1870-high-wych-windmill003-300x239.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1870-high-wych-windmill003-768x612.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1870-high-wych-windmill003-1024x816.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>It reminded me of my first foray in the subject of local history when, in 2009, I helped my mother in law write and publish an article about the windmill that once stood on the corner of Broadfields and High Wych Road.\u00a0 My rewrite will take into account information from Hugh Howes&#8217;s book as well as an article written by Gary Thorp in the early nineties.\u00a0 Watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile why not buy a copy of &#8220;Wind, Water and Steam&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"book-cover aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.herts.ac.uk\/__data\/assets\/image\/0020\/128153\/varieties\/profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hertfordshire University Press just published an interesting book about the history of windmills in\u00a0 our county. \u00a0 Entitled &#8221; Wind , Water and Steam&#8221; it was written by Hugh\u00a0 Howes.\u00a0 It is, as they say, available through all good bookshops and I can thoroughly recommend it.\u00a0 If you are interested, you can find more information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}