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Notebook - 1966 to 1967

A government-supplied Shorthand Note Book dated 1966 and 1967 containing notes from visits to a variety of industrial buildings and works thoughout the UK, including breweries, refineries, founderies, brickyards, docks, pumping stations, tanneries and potteries. The contents are itemized on the front and back covers. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. There are several unindexed Staffordshire mills.

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

Agreements for sale of basic datum: Various mills in north west England and London

Agreements between Purchase Finance Company Ltd and: Carr's Flour Mills Carlisle; King Flour Mills Ellesmere Port; Edward Hutchinson Ltd of Mersey Flour Mills Liverpool; Paul Brothers Ltd of Homepride Mills Birkenhead; James Fairclough and Sons Ltd of Mersey Mills Warrington; William Nelstrop and Co Ltd of Albion Corn Mills Stockport; Thomas Hulbert & Sons Ltd of New Era Mills Hulme; Hovis Ltd London; Spillers Ltd London; Joseph Rank Ltd of Clarence Flour Mills Hull.

Purchase Finance Company Ltd

"Other Counties" (A-L)

A scrapbook-style album containing photographs, newspaper cuttings and ephemera on mills in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Durham, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, and Guernsey and Sark.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

T.B. Paisley's 'Windmill Notes'

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)

Research notebook for 'Chinnor', 'Llandeusant' and 'Saughhall' mills

A repurposed Army field message book (without its cover) labelled, 'Chinnor & (contains all sketches & rough notes of) Llandeusant Mill, Anglesey, Saughall'. The contents include: a narrative description of the post mill at Chinnor, describing its post as, 'the smallest I have ever seen', notes also being made about 'Great Hazeley Mill' (7 pages); detailed notes, drawing and measurements on 'Saughall mill' following an inspection on 4 March 1933 (20 pages); intricate drawings, measurements and notes about Llanddeusant water mill (33 pages).
The notebook also contains detailed notes relating to some sort of printing or photographic process and a pinned memo to 'call at W.H. for fiddle' [a possible reference to Enid Wailes' violin].

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

Pocket notebook - Gayton and Ashdon mills

A small pocket notebook (measuring 7.5 cm by 11 cm) containing notes on Gayton, Ashdon and Sh[aw] Mills and notes "per Mr P. Davies" about a Mr Horton of Hythe regarding the use of sack hoist chains by his father and grandfather, W.B and J. Horton, respectively.

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

Research notebook on woad cultivation and milling

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Woad" begins with 8 pages of notes on Willaston Mill taken on a visit on 26 October 1929. The remainder of the notebook is filled with detailed notes on woad cultivation and milling. Parson Drove Mill and Algarkirk Woad Mill both feature regularly in the notes. Visits to consult Spalding Gentlemen's Society's windmill folio and Boston Museum's woad exhibit are recorded/planned and notes are taken from a variety of books and journals including; J.B. Henry's 'The Woad Plant and its Dye' (Oxford University Press, 1930); the Agricultural Society's Journal (1917), 'Nature' Vol. 55 (1896 - 1897), 'Aunt Judy's Magazine' (1883); the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society; the Horticultural Society Journal Vol. 26 (1906); J. M. Bayer's 'Theatrum Machinarium Molarium'; A. Young's 'General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln' (1799).

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

Purchase of Goodwill of North Shore Mill Company Ltd (Liverpool)

Schedule of deeds and documents relating to the purchase of Goodwill of North Shore Mill Company Ltd (Liverpool) by the Purchase Finance Company Ltd and King Flour Mills Ltd (Ellesmere Port). Includes documentation relating to property at: North Shore Mill, 85 Boundary Street, Liverpool, Caernarvon Docks and Menai Bridge, Anglesey.

Purchase Finance Company Ltd

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