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Report - Bocking Windmill

Two reports by Nicholl's co-director, Chris Wallis, on Bocking Windmill, Braintree marked "DON Purely for General Background Information".
(1) Six page manuscript report (pages 1 to 9). Details the condition of the mill with a recommendation that preliminary work is carried out to expose hidden timbers allowing their condition to be assessed, a complete dimensions survey to be taken and a priced bill of quantities to be drawn up. The cost of this preliminary work (including the removal of the sails and stock) is £600.
(2) Four pages of drawings and measurements (pages 10 to 14) for works to improve the mill's stability. Includes drawings for a steel beam support to the mill's broken shears as well as for a cranked beam.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Various ephemera

Miscellaneous ephemera listed as:
Copy of a painting from a calendar called “Downland Farm” by C. Water Smith, C 1514, "From Miss Ingram".
Page from "Naturopa 36" (1980) showing Kinderdijk windmills, Netherlands.
Cecil Sale calendar from November to January 1970 depicting Aythorpe Roding post mill.
Magazine article on Heckington Mill by Sheila Robinson.
Calendar page of a Houghton Mill, Huntingdonshire, March 1974.
Calendar page depicting a watercolour of a post mill by Sylvester Stannard, published by C W Faulkner & Co Ltd, London.
Page from "The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, Second Series, Part 1" (1920) reproducing Thomas Girtin's "A Mill in Essex" (1799).
Page from from "She" magazine (between 1955-1964) showing Rolvenden post mill.
Calendar page from 1947 depicting a watercolour of a smock mill. An inscription on the reverse reads: "Wishing Harry & Doris a Happy Christmas and Peaceful New Year. From Mary & Roni 1947-48".
Picture of T. B. Latchmore's photograph of Bassingbourn mills, Cambridgeshire.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925

A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.

Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.

Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Research notebook on various mills, 1932

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Various notes should be transcribed. Gt Hazely, Ramsey, Ivinghoe" and comprising research notes, drawings and measurements from visits to the identifiable mills listed at "Place access points" below. Ivinghoe is more commonly known as 'Pitstone Windmill', Wailes noting a date of 1627 carved in part of the interior.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Research notebook, 1933 to 1935

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Shiremark, Aythorpe Roding, Seaton Ross" containing 8 pages of an undated draft narrative about post mills and paltrok mills. The notebook also contains research notes, drawings and measurements from visits to the following mills: Shiremark Mill, Capel on 12 November 1933 (9 pages); Aythorpe Roding on 1 October 1934 (4 pages); Preston Mill, Seaton Ross on 6 April 1935 (3 pages). Lastly, a long list of 81 windmills, each with what seem to be a key feature noted against them (e.g. "Billericay - collapsed", "Bozeat - winch on tailpole"). Interspersed are notes about two, seemingly unrelated businesses: the Belden Manufacturing Co., Chicago and E.M. Denny & Co, a soft cheese processing plant.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk

A Reporters' Notebook containing:
Northants: notes taken from 'Northants Notes & Queries, New Series, Vol.4, 1912-1920' relating to: a 1609 grant by James 1 of a post mill at Kettering; the history of an unindexed tower mill (located on the site of a former post mill on Rockingham Road, Kettering) which was demolished in 1893; 18th c. maps of Kettering showing the location of various mills and a 19th c. print showing a post mill at Peterborough; also notes about the post mill at Seaton, Rutland which was demolished in 1917 as well as the nearby watermill, Henry Royce being said to have worked at both mills as a boy.
Suffolk: research notes relating to Suffolk windmills including construction dates, operational status in 1926,1939 and 1955 and including the notable features listed in 'Subject access points' below.
Windmill restoration: eight pages of draft narrative rehearsing the demise of wind and watermills since the late 19th c. and extolling the efforts of John Russell to restore and preserve Union Mill, Cranbrook. The narrative rehearses the preservation efforts made by a number of local authorities (counties listed in 'Place access points' below) arguing that it should be essential for such work to be their responsibility.
Windmills still in operation: notes running from back-to-front in the notebook listing, 'How many still in use', which are 'Workable' and 'When used and why'.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

'Notes Watermills'

Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Album of photographs including the Buckland family

Whilst the album includes photographs of windmills, castles, churches, and other interests, additional photographs of importance to Stephen include his childhood home, himself and his brother Francis as children, his father Charles Buckland, his mother Jessie Hatch Flemming, and maternal grandfather Percy Flemming.
Non-mill photographs include: Cuddeson church; Appleton, Berkshire; Tenterden, Kent; Icklesham, Sussex; Appledore, Kent; Rye, Sussex; Cranbrook, Kent; Pevensey Castle, Sussex; Bodham Castle, Sussex; New Romney; Tonbridge Castle; Farnham Castle; Guildford Castle; Castle Motte, Ongar; Thaxted, Sussex; St Vulfran Church, Abbeville; St-Valery-sur-Somme; Rue, Somme; Saint-Riquier, Somme; Boulogne; Bruges; Ghent; Hampstead; Abbey Gate, Bury St Edmunds; Canterbury Cathedral; Washington Street, Hastings; Rye, Sussex; Westminster Bridge; Embankment; dismantled Dome and Skylon from Embankment.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Pocket notebook - Suffolk windmills -1930 or later

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1930 measuring 7.5 cm x 10 cm, most of the pages being blank, but containing a list of the Suffolk mills itemised at 'Place access points' below, with brief descriptions for each one. These include details of the current mill owner (where applicable) and their condition (or date of demolition, if applicable).

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Pocket notebook - 1931 or later

A repurposed pocket diary for August 1931 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Kent" with brief notes on, and/or references to, the mills listed at "Place access points" below. The notebook is only partially complete.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Research notebook for various mills, 1932 to 1934

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Bozeat, Kibworth Harcourt, Halnaker, Outwood" comprising research notes, drawings and measurements from visits to the following mills: Bozeat Mill on 25 March 1932 (8 pages); Moreton Mill on 20 June 1932 (8 pages); Kibworth Harcourt on 28 May 1933 (14 pages - including notes of old inscriptions, "Daniel Hutchinson Miller 1711" and "William Fellow 1794"); Halnaker Mill examined on 12 December 1933 with Sir William Bird (3 pages); The Old Mill, at Cornwall Road, Buxton on 22 June 1934 (7 pages and referencing Joshua Ashby & Sons); notes about Outwood post mill (4 pages); "Pure White Laundry, Toot[ing]" on 27 June 1934 (2 pages); further pages of assorted notes including an extract from an 1817 account of money expended at Halnaker Mill (13 pages).

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

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