For you Erinmaidin...not a recent one but this did get on stage in the final ten of the competition.
            
          LINCOLNSHIRE WINDMILLS.

In the lowlands of Lincolnshire old windmills still stand.
Built by our ancestors to harvest the land.
Great buildings of grace made with purpose and power.
To grind the good corn from our fields into flour.

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Progress won't wait it just keeps moving on,
With much of our heritage ruined or gone!
Ruined or gone, ruined or gone,
With much of our heritage ruined or gone.

At Boston and Wainfleet at Alford and Burgh.
You can see five sailed windmills that will make your heart stir.
At Lincoln and Wrawby only four sails to creak.
An eight sailed at Heckington makes it unique.

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One hundred and thirty in the County remain.
As a great testimony to the grinding of grain.
A part of our heritage worthy of praise.
Great buildings of beauty that have seen better days.

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New structures are coming to the County we're told.
Which in no way resemble the windmills of old.
Long slender bodies with three giant arms.
Arriving in multitudes known as wind farms.

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Some folk sing their praises as sources of power.
Some give them odd names like the ivory towers.
But some say our land will be subject to rape.
As the giant new windmills obscure our landscape.

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Mike Hill
(31st July 2004)