When Napoleon abandoned his planned invasion of Britain its propaganda value was lost and it was returned to Bayeux where the council displayed it on a winding apparatus of two cylinders.
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However, the swing bridge continued in use until the mid-1960s, its hand-winding apparatus having been made redundant on 1 January 1963, when the canal closed.
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Height of the tower is to curb and the mill stands to the base of the finial on the cap, which was latterly winded by a fantail carried over the rear extension which housed the hand winding apparatus.