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| The old "jog-scry" aka "joggle screen" or "jiggle screen" at Quainton Windmill in Bucks (from the Quainton Mill Website) |
How could an innocent old windmill become an instrument of titillation and torment? Even terror?
Above you see a rare example of a "jog scry" or joggling/jiggling screen used in some windmills as a flour grading machine before the invention of wire screens.
The Jog-Scry in Kitson's Windmill in
Goatsucker Harvest inspires one character profoundly. Too profoundly, perhaps. It arouses memories and secret, sinister associations in him that have devastating consequences for the people of Turbary Nab.
Disturbing changes are afoot. Humble, run-down Kitson's Windmill is about to become transformed. The unsuspecting townspeople of Victorian Doncaster and beyond are about to encounter something monstrous on their calm horizon. The ancient alchemy of the peat marshes of South Yorkshire is about to be unleashed!
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[Below are the earthbound remains of some of the local windmills that were in the author's imagination when she was writing about the area with a fictional glow.]
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| Thorne Windmill by F.W. Jackson |
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| Fishlake Windmill near Doncaster |
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| West Nab Windmill, Fishlake near Doncaster |
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| Lings Windmill at Hatfield Woodhouse, Dunscroft near Doncaster |
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| Thorne Windmill near Doncaster |
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