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"Virginia & U.S.A. Canals"

Material relating to canals in Virginia and Ontario, Canada. The file includes leaflets on the James River and Kanawha Canal, Virginia, canal parks in old Virginia, and the Trent-Severn Waterway, Ontario.Other items include "The Tiller" volume 3 issue 2 by the Virginia Canals & Navigations Society, Inc., a calendar showing pictures of covered bridges, and a photocopy article entitled " Power Plants of the Morris & Essex Canal" by Hugh Boutell.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

"To face Canal"

Plate XVII from "A new royal and universal dictionary of arts and sciences" illustrating a canal.

Hall, William Henry, author

Research notebook - Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester

A government-supplied Shorthand Note Book labelled, 'Rex Wailes. No Mills. 1963. Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester' with notes on a variety of topics including:
Lecture series: Notes on talks given to: the Northampton Natural History Society (19 March 1963); the Nonsuch & Ewell Antiquarian Society (26 March 1963); in Canterbury (6-7 April 1963). These were seemingly given to generate support for forthcoming survey-work. The Canterbury notes also include observations on the Kent mills listed at 'Place access points' below. Draft letters to those attending/organising these events also feature, including one with respect to a proposed visit to 'Pilgrim's College'.
Nottinghamshire pumping stations: Notes on pumping stations at Bestwood, Papplewick, Boughton, near Ollerton, and Basford, with reference to the relevant manufacturers (e.g. Ashton Frost and Hathone Davy). Also contains a list of mills in the Southwell area of Nottingham, focusing on the River Greet and Dora Beck.
Canals: Notes taken at Manchester Public Library on surveys of the Greater Manchester/Lancashire canal network and the rivers serving them.

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

Notebook - 1967 to 1968

A Reporters Notebook labelled 'Bath Nov 1967, Group 9 Reading Feb 1968, Kent & Staffs 1968', the contents being itemised on the front and back covers.
The 'Bath' section of the notebook begins with 43 pages of notes which appear to have been taken at a conference on industrial archaeology and possible means of preserving its heritage, including discussion of open-air museums. Notes are taken from talks by: Angus Buchanan - 'The Status of Industrial Archaeology; 'The Techniques of Industrial Archaeology, Part I and II' - Michael Rix and Frank Atkinson, respectively; and a paper given by Kenneth Hudson, giving particular reference to the approach adopted by museums in Scandinavia.
The 'Reading' section is marked 'Group 9, CBA' and features notes on lectures given at a further symposium on: the farm estate at Buscott Park (John Grayson) - at one time considered to be the most industrialised in the country; the Bucklebury Foundry ([Mc]Combe); and S. & E. Collier's gravel and brick-works [in Reading] (Ken Major).
The remainder of the notebook records visits to various industrial buildings and works in Kent (including a waterworks, two breweries and a wheelwrights) and numerous sites in Staffordshire, including several concerned with the china and earthenware manufacturing industry and surrounding canal network. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. Unindexed watermills were visited at: Park Mill, High Offley, Eccleshall; Wetley Rocks; and Cookshill, Caverswall, as was an unidentified mill called Logwood [Logwodd] Mill about which, Wailes notes, a film was made by the BBC .

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

North American mills and milling industries files

Files containing correspondence, photographs, notes, and ephemera on various wind and water mills and related industries in the United States of America, Canada, and the Caribbean. Industries include sugar mills; salt mills; cider mills; dye mills; flax, hemp and textile mills; paper mills; colour mills; whiting mills; rice mills; ironworks; bridges; canals; hydroelectric power; saw mills; tide mills.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

"Canada - Ottawa"

Material relating to mills and canals in Canada. The file includes a booklet on the Rideau Canal, and mentions mills along the waterway; three books by the National Capital Commission on "Parliament Hill", "The Mile of History", and "Bytown A guide to Lowertown Ottawa", and non-mill photographs of Toronto.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright