The Wind Energy Museum is the country’s only collection of its kind
(Picture: Sowerbys)In the middle of the Norfolk Broads, an unusual assortment of 10 historic mills stand tall above the flat land and labyrinthine waterways below. There is a 1920s wind engine with rotating sails; a large scoopwheel, originally used to drain the marsh; a steam engine with a turbine, called a Holmes Engine — the last one in existence today.
This is The Wind Energy Museum, showcasing 200 years of wind power history, and the UK’s only collection of its kind. Almost three miles away is Thurne Mill, a 202-year-old white pump mill facing the River Thurne.
