Topping Out an Ancient Windmill. Isle of Portland. Historic event

With the help of a big crane and a team of helpers, a new roof was placed on one of the two historic stone windmill towers on Portland. The roof has been skilfully made single-handed by owner Nick Gould.
The mill had lain roofless and derelict for more than a century. The twin structures are the only surviving windmill relics in the county of Dorset.
The two stone-towered windmills at Cottonfields and Growlands, in the centre of the Island, although first recorded in the Land Revenue Accounts of 1608, may have been built 100 years earlier. The windmills, which were prominent Island landmarks, remained in use until the late 19th century. Until the 1970s, the mills sat in splendid isolation in rolling fields. Housing development then encroached right up to the North Mill, and a stone quarry destroyed a field adjoining the southern one. They've lost much of their rural setting.
The restoration of the roof of the North Mill by the current owner, Nick Gould, has been a work of love and dedication. Perhaps one day we'll see it complete with sails!