This replica of a
post mill, the earliest type of windmill built in western Europe, is a working grain-grinding windmill at the museum.
You can find the bench just down from the Outwood Windmill - he oldest working
post mill in Britain -
Other future plans for the museum, which in September saw 54,454 visitors through its gates up from 45,617 last year, include creating a chemist and photographers in the 1900s town, developing a 16th Century
post mill from Blyth, a candle house from Westgate and a Great north Road coaching inn allowing people to spend the night at the museum.
It is built on the site of a much older
post mill. This type of windmill is called a Tower Mill and it was last used as a working windmill in 1948.
Most of the country's top weightlifters will be in action at the event, which is being staged at the
Post Mill Centre in South Normanton throughout the day.
GB performance lifter Gareth Evans, of Holyhead Weightlifting Club, along with Swansea's Natasha Perdue and Cardiff teenager Darius Jokarzadeh take to the platform alongside most of the country's top weightlifters at the
Post Mill Centre in South Normanton.
The design of
post mill goes back further than the 18th century.
The impressive building in Windmill Lane was built in 1826 on the site of an old
post mill and is the most complete tower mill in the West Midlands.
The
Post Mill is on the market along with a bungalow, stables, outbuildings and 1.7-acre grounds.
The
post mill is the earliest type of windmill and has the main body suspended on a huge central post made from a single tree trunk.