Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the sale of "a freehold house windmill land at Herne Bay" by the Alexander family to "Horne otherwise Collard". The documents include: a very clear schedule of "title deeds & writings relating to a messuage windmill land & hereditaments at Herne Bay in the County of Kent"; the Alexander family's solicitor's draft responses to requisitions on title raised by the purchaser's solicitor, Walter Furley of Canterbury; the cash account of the Alexander family's solicitors (Emmerson & Co of Sandwich), showing the shares received by each of eight Alexander brothers and the succession duty paid;

12 pages of paper measuring approximately 41 cm x 34 cm tracing brothers, Charles and Edmund Charles', title as 'coheirs in gavelkind' to the property of their sister, Elizabeth Stanley, who died without issue in 1868. The document traces title back to the purchase of land by Edward Charles and John Thorp[e] from Sir Henry Oxenden 'upon which they had lately erected and built a Windmill' and to an additional parcel of land 'part of the waste of the Lord of that [Reculver] Manor' and to which they were admitted as tenants on 20 October 1824. The document recites that Edward Charles and John Thorp[e] had 'for sometime then past carried on the trade or business of Millers jointly and in copartnership at [the] parish of Herne' but that in July 1829, had decided to dissolve the partnership. Having agreed that Edward Charles should buy John Thorp[e]'s share (including the windmill and all fixtures, machinery and stock-in-trade), two arbitrators were appointed to make final Awards as to valuation (one of whom being John Penn, millwright, of Deptford). Edward Charles' will of 23 August 1850 describes him as residing at Reculver Villa. Dispositions under the will include the Herne Bay mill and bakehouse in favour of his sons Edward and Charles and his daughter, Eliza. Further recitals are made as to the settlement reached regarding Eliza's entitlements under her father's will upon her marriage to Henry Stanley of 25 Upper Gloucester Place, Dorset Square, London.

Inland Revenue pre-printed form completed by Joseph Alexander on behalf of himself and his seven brothers, having inherited their father's estate as coheirs in gavelkind, their father, James Alexander having died intestate on 24 August 1875. The estate is valued at £1,400 and is described as "a freehold messuage or tenement and Windmill with the buildings and Land thereunto belonging situate at Herne Bay in the parish of Herne in the County of Kent in the occupation of Thomas Wootton at the yearly rent of £56.". A Succession Duty of £8 and six shillings is paid.

14 pages of paper measuring approximately 34 cm x 41 cm abstracting the title of the 'coheirs of James Alexander deceased to a messuage Windmill & Land situate at Herne Bay in the Parish of Herne in the County of Kent'. The abstract concerns dealings with the property between 1808 and 1835.

13 pages of paper measuring approximately 41 cm x 34 cm tracing back to 10 June 1743 Sir Henry Oxenden's title to 'a capital messuage Farm and Lands called Underdown in the Parish of Hearn in the County of Kent comprising a piece or parcel of Land and premises at Hearn Bay'.

Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the Alexander family's instructions to sell their 'family property' at Herne Bay for £1,400 to Mr Collard 'alias Horne'. The papers include a draft 'Schedule of Title Deeds and Writings relating to a messuage Windmill and lands at Herne Bay' dating from 1824 through to 1879, the property having been sold by the Charles brothers (Edmund and Charles) and Henry Stanley (Eliza's widower) to [James] Alexander on 31 August 1869. The firm of solicitors is Emmerson & Co, Sandwich, Kent.

5 pages of paper measuring approximately 41 cm x 34 cm describing Sir James Oxenden's settlement of his estate at Hearn Bay including land known as 'Underdown with one other small messuage or tenement and the Barns stables orchards Gdens & Arable Meadow and Pasture Lands...... containing in the whole by estim[ation] 160 acres more or less....And all other messuages etc sit[uate] lying & being in the Parishes of Reculver Hearn and Chislett....".

6 pages of paper measuring approximately 41 cm x 34 cm tracing Charles and Thorpe's title to 'two several pieces or parcels of Lands tog[ether] with a certain Windmill other Erections thereon situate lying and being at or near a certain place called Herne Bay...". The document describes part of the land as having been known as 'the Salts'.

Photocopy of sales particulars for auction of Town/Abbey Mills, Tewkesbury, 1822.

Paper copies of images from slides in Bexley Archives of Brent Mill, Dartford; May Place Mill, Bexley Heath and unidentified post mill believed by Roy Cornell to be Northumberland Heath (Erith) post mill.

Copy of old image of Herne Bay windmill.

Comprehensive collection of photocopied typed and handwritten research notes relating to Kent windmill sites, organised alphabetically by parish (D-I).