Hollow post drainage mill, Zaandam-West, North-Holland
- REXW-GPN-D-054
- Item
- 1923
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Paltrok saw mill De Held Jozua visible in background on left.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
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Hollow post drainage mill, Zaandam-West, North-Holland
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Paltrok saw mill De Held Jozua visible in background on left.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
De Held Jozua, Zaandam-West, North-Holland
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Paltrok saw mill built 1719.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
De Pet, Zaandam-West, North-Holland
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Paltrok saw mill which stood from 1725 to 1938.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
De Gekroonde Poelenburg, Zaandam-Oost, North-Holland
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Paltrok saw mill which stood from 1904 to 1963.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
De Gekroonde Poelenburg, Zaandam-Oost, North-Holland
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Paltrok saw mill which stood from 1904 to 1963.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
60 page 'letter' sent to Wailes' wife, Enid. The letter is in the form of a diary recording Wailes' trip to the Leipzig Trade Fair. It records Wailes' impressions of his train trip through Germany, his fellow travellers and a visit to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
The last ten pages record Wailes' trip north of Leipzig 'on the main Berlin road & as soon as we got out of the suburbs, there was a mill to every village we saw. Nearly all were post mills, & nearly all were the same. Patent sails, no round house tailpole with a winch on the end, straight pitched roof, vertical weatherboarding all tarred.' He comments that those mills near the main road had advertisments on their sides.
Wailes records a visit to a mill near Delitzsch where he meets the miller, Kurt Schumann, and 'took many photos, both inside and out'. There was also a visit to an unidentified tower mill, built in 1886, which Schumann described as a 'Hollandsche műhle,' which was brick-built with a fan-tail and octagonal cap. Wailes is particularly struck by the fact that it, 'had a lift instead of a chain for the sack hoist!!'.
A 'poltrok' mill at Rődgen is also visited (converted from a post mill in 1924, the original dating from 1614). Wailes comments, 'the mill is chock full of new machinery and new methods of drive, sufficient of the old being left to make it intensely interesting'.
Wailes concludes the letter, 'Must stop now. Dresden tomorrow'.
Research notebook, 1933 to 1935
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
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
"Paltrok saw mill outside Zaandam to w."
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Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
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Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
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Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
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Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
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Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
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Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
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Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
"Poelenburg, Zaanseschans, Netherlands sawmill"
Part of Richard Hills Collection
Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
"Poelenburg, Zaanseschans, Netherlands sawmill"
Part of Richard Hills Collection
Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman