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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Handing the sail into position"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
The Hunts fitting a new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"The fenland’s story famed. View from Mere Mill with Soham church visible 2 miles away"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"View from wind-shaft of Mere Mill looking towards Ely Cathedral. The sail shown has no 'gore'"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
'Gore' is used to describe an extra piece held between the whip and the stock.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Tom Hunt fixing the bolts to secure the new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
The Hunts arriving at Mere Mill with a new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Merry work. The back has just touched the ground'"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
The miller with family and friends pulling the 'anti-bump' rope to keep the sail back from bumping against the mill as it is lowered.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Fixing the chain. View from the lower end of the sail"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Tom and Jack fastening a chain to the poll hub.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Tom Hunt standing on the sails after disconnecting and removing the striking rod.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
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
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher
Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
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
T.B. Paisley's 'Windmill Notes'
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A 'spring folio', binding together loose pages comprising 'Windmill Notes, compiled from various sources by T.B. Paisley'. The folio is divided into the following sections: 'English Windmills. Arranged by Counties' and 'Foreign Windmills' (USA and France). The folio covers the counties listed at 'Place access points below' with brief details of selected post, tower and smock mills there and the date visited.
Paisley, Thomas Brownlee (1916-1980)
"Cattell's smock mill Willingham, Cambs Sept 1960"
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Views of Cattell's Mill, Willingham, with two sails, taken in August and September 1960 by Stephen, accompanied by Chris Wilson and Laurence Turner. A list identifying each photograph can be found in the box.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
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
Photographs of Wicken Fen Mill, Wicken Fen
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Development number 0006.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Michael French Collection
Documents and photographs connected with Chesterton Mills.
French, Michael, mill owner
Photographs of Cattell's Mill, Willingham and Tower mill, Over
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Photographs of Cattell's Mill with two sails, and Tower mill, Over with an exposed cap frame, taken in the early 1960s.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher