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	Name: Darren Ross Building: Fulwell Mill Location: Sunderland What is your relationship to this building?: Fulwell Mill has watched out over Sunderland from its hill for around two hundred years. I have been its neighbour for my thirty one years. As I grew up, I watched it decay from neglect. Now it is magnificently restored, I hope to see it grow stronger while I begin my own decay. I cannot tell you how exciting it is as an adult, never mind as a child, to open your curtains on a morning and see a great white windmill gleaming in the sun, or turning pink from a sunset. Why do you love this building?: It's a great machine, but on a human scale. It enhances the landscape, and produces not one ounce of pollution. It epitomises the Greek axiom of moderation in all things, and is a lesson that in taking machines to an extreme we uglify our world - were we but a little less greedy and a little more patient, perhaps so many buildings and factories could look like this. I live in one of the most deprived cities in Britain, yet here among us stands the kind of windmill a child would draw. In our ugly city it is like a shard of Heaven gleaming in the dust. This is industry that celebrates humanity rather than crushing it. It is wholly and utterly wonderful.



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