Lowe's Mill, Thaxted

MEYE-01494
Item
1938

The mill is being repaired as a landmark. Its original sails are still in position, although the reefing stage is missing.

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

Lowe's Mill, Thaxted

ACSC-09623
Item
1982

Part of Arthur C Smith Collection

Slide number 18.

Smith, Arthur C

Tower Mill, Thaxted, Essex

REXW-ESS-77-18
Item
No Date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Tower Mill, Thaxted, Essex

REXW-ESS-77-19
Item
No Date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Tower Mill, Thaxted, Essex

REXW-ESS-77-03
Item
1938

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Research notes

REXW-NOT-054
File
24 July 1938

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Bundle of research notes on:

a draft address/paper relating to the Newcomen Society and the emergence of the term, 'Industrial Archaeology' (pre 1970);
Thaxted Mill (30 November 1964);
Broxted Mill (24 July 1938);
an unidentified author's 'list of Post Mills In Essex that I know' addressed to 'Mr Wailes';
brief typed notes on mills at South Ockenden, Stock and Southminster (undated);
8 pages of notes taken from the 'Historic Monuments Commission of the Province of Quebec' (Proulx, 1928) and from the 'Legal Archives of Quebec'. The focus is on historic 'Banal' and 'Seignorial' mills of Canada, including those listed at 'Place access points' below as well as notes about several unindexed mills (a 'First known mill on the Island of Orleans', 'Windmill [or Banal Mill] Saint Famille','The Mill Pointe aux Trembles', 'Fleming Mill, Ville La Salle', 'The Banal Mill, Vinceloth Signeur, Cap Saint Ignace', 'The Banal Mill, Grondines', 'old windmills at Fort Erie, Niagara and Windmill Point, Prescott' and the 'Old Windmill Sandwich'. An unidentified mill at 'Saint Plerve' is also noted;
a brief note on the depiction of mills in art, 'This is not place to illustrate derelicts but mills when in their glory...' (undated);
labels for plates in a paper or book, most of the items depicted being described as, 'in the possession of the author', for example, 'Puzzle jug inscribed, 'The Miller, the house & the mill but where is the Donkey'.

"Thaxted, Essex. 1949"

JSPB-PHT-31
Item
April 1949

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Originally in a small leather frame which was falling apart.
Note on reverse: "Thaxted Tower Mill Essex April 1949".

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

Thaxted Tower Mill, Essex

JSPB-1127804
Item
16 April 1949

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Page n. 5. The photograph shows an external view of the mill. In the same album there is another photograph of this mill.

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

Mill Research Notebook 01

JSPB-1125422
Item
11 April - August 1949

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Small, blue, ring-bound notebook labelled "Earliest Windmill Notes 1949 Essex, Sussex, Kent". Contains notes and sketches on windmills including Ash Mill; Little Laver; Moreton; Henham; Stansted; Thaxted; Wimbledon Common; Clavering; White Roding; High Ongar; Littlehampton; Rolvenden; Rye; Northiam; Playden; Sissinghurst; High Halden; Great Chart; Sandhurst; Kennington; Chillenden; Stanford; Pluckley; Wittersham; Smarden; Blackmore End; Beneden; Cross in Hand; Punnett's Town; Biddenden; Woodchurch.

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

Album of photographs windmills in England

JSPB-ALB-21
File
1959 - 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Photographs taken from negatives created by Peter Pearce and B. R. Billings. They appear to have been in the possession of SPAB at the time of Stephen developing them. Peter Pearce's photographs of predominantly Sussex, with some in Essex, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey, taken between 1925 and 1936. B. R. Billings' photographs were taken between 1913 and 1920.

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

Lowe's Mill, Thaxted

EMGC-05-06-63
Item
1940s - 1950s

Part of E M Gardner Collection

Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)

Thaxted great spurwheel and stonenut

JENN-7923
Item
1976-1979

Part of Peter Jennings Collection

Jennings, Peter

Thaxted

JENN-7922
Item
1976-1979

Part of Peter Jennings Collection

Jennings, Peter

Thaxted

JENN-6825
Item
1962-1972

Part of Peter Jennings Collection

Jennings, Peter

Lowe's Mill, Thaxted, Essex

REXW-IMG-01-134
Item
Early 20th century

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Note on reverse ' by Mr S.H.Duge'

Duge, S H

"Windmill at Thaxted, Essex"

VENN-IMG-02-068
Item
June 1946

Part of James Venn Collection

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

"Thaxted, Essex"

VENN-IMG-02-059
Item
9 September 1934

Part of James Venn Collection

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

"Essex Windmills - interesting report to County Council - The Upminster Mill"

CUTT-04982
Item
10 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Grays and Tilbury Gazette". It was revealed in a special report at a Planning committee meeting that only two windmills out of 112 in Essex were in working order. Discussions considered the viability of restoring and preserving of windmills in Essex. The report was adopted by the Town and Country Planning Committee.

"Essex Windmills"

CUTT-04975
Item
12 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "East Anglian Daily Times". A report by the County Surveyor regarding Essex windmills recommended that the Smock Mill at Upminster should not be demolished. This was approved by the County Council.

Lowe's Mill, Thaxted

GBMR-0462
Item
April 2017

Part of Great British Mill Race

Berry, Mark

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