We are delighted to convey the fantastic news that the new cap (top of the mill) for our neighbouring mill, the Smock Tower Mill in Swaffham Prior is due to arrive today, the 24th March. If you live locally, you will see the new cap arrive on a low loader and then be craned into a storage location awaiting its final lift onto the repaired smock tower (the wooden structure which forms the tower of the mill).
The cap has been built at the International Boat Building College at Lowestoft.
James Forsyth has been busy over the winter under his scaffolding tower repairing and replacing the cladding of the mill tower and strengthening it for the arrival of the new working cap.
Today, you will also see the installation of the new iron curb on which the cap will sit which will enable the cap to turn to face the wind.
It is planned to have the works to the mill completed later this year, the new sails fitted and the fantail working so that the whole mill turns to face the wind, like its neigbhbour – Fosters Mill!
We will keep posting updates as news arrives.
