Newspaper cutting
The Times
Category
Ephemera
Date
21 Mar 1960
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
184 x 240 mm
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Summary
1 of 128 Newspaper Cuttings; Subject - Windmills (plus a few watermills and a dovecote). A newspaper cutting of pictures of a Dovecote from THE TIMES WEDNESDAY MONDAY MARCH 21 1960. Caption below main picture: FREE-WHEELING IN A DOVECOTE From Our Special Correspondent The ancient and well worn dovecote of Dunster, in Somerset, has just been X-rayed--to see why its massive internal ladder rotates so freely on an unoiled bearing believed to be 400 years old. "It certainly has not been, and cannot be, oiled," said the Rev. Michael McCormick, vicar of Dunster, in a letter to Shell's Thornton Research Centre, where problems of lubrication are of more than passing interest. Experts were invited to make an examination of the bearing. This dovecote, a large circular stone building, is claimed by the vicar to be one of the few ancient examples with a revolving ladder still in working order........................... The caption below the second picture: The Dunster dovecote which has just been X-rayed. Above: The Rev. Michael McCormick (on left), vicar of Dunster, and Dr. P. L. Davies, of Shell Research, Ltd., inside the dovecote with portable X-ray apparatus.
Makers and roles
The Times, printer and publisher