Report addressed to Mr and Mrs John Barker following an inspection on 20/21 March 1986. The 5-page (double-sided) report gives a history of the mill, discusses the condition of its structure, machinery, water courses and controls and makes proposals for their repair/restoration to milling order. Consideration is also given to whether the restored mill could sustain a small scale commercial milling operation and generate sufficient interest for a visiting public. The budget costings provided (£32,790) include provision for a visitor reception area.

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.

Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.

Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.

A resume of tide mills in England and Wales with descriptions of notable tide mill and their historical context. Discusses tidal ranges on some rivers e.g. River Thames, Severn.

3 pages of A4 paper, folded around 16 pages of notes taken from two smaller notebooks. Notes taken on mills in Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Wales and Yorkshire, with more detailed notes on a windmill at 'Brill, Bucks' which is also labelled 'Wilford's mill'.

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Tide [and] Cider Mills, Woad Cart, Sprowston" containing research notes, drawings and measurements taken from visits in 1932 to the identifiable post and tower mills listed at "Place access points" below.
The notebook also contains: 5 pages of notes extracted from "The Miller's Guide", R.R. Smith, London, William Butcher, 1875; 4 pages of notes following a visit to a cider mill at St Keynes, Cornwall, 2 July 1937; 24 pages of notes and drawings labelled, "Woad Farm, Boston, 2 August 1937"; in the rear pocket, two postcards addressed to Wailes, one of which is from H.W. Dickinson, Honorary Secretary of The Newcomen Society , referencing tide and cider mills.

Assignment of goodwill of business, T Rowse & Sons to the Purchase Finance Company Ltd.

Six sheets of watermarked paper (approximately 21 cm x 33 cm) with double-sided manuscript on five of the sheets. The indenture records the conveyance by Susanna Hill (daughter of James Hill) of two Corn or Grist watermills known as Tubbs Mills as well as the two meadows known as Mill Holme and a variety of other land, fields and premises, much of which is named or described as to use/location, in the Parishes of Minster and Forabury. Parties to this indenture tripartite are Susanna Hill, Samuel Thomas and Oliver Adam.

Four sheets of watermarked paper (approximately 31 cm x 38 cm) with double-sided manuscript on three of the sheets. The release relates to two Corn or Grist watermills known as Tubbs Mills as well as the two meadows known as Mill Holme and a variety of other land, fields and premises, much of which named or described as to use/location, in the Parishes of Minster and Forabury. Parties to this indenture quadripartite are James Hill, Hugh Pyper. Richard Wise and Samuel Lyne.

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.

Slides of Rôskennals Mill, Sancreed in Cornwall and additionally of Kirkcaldy's Testing Works and Southwark Street, London.
Note in the box: "Kirkcaldy's Works & Southwark St, SE1, March or April 1976. Roskennals mill, Newbridge nr. Penzance, March 1976 - 3 of waste-trap & lever - rest of water flowing onto wheel, inc. a long run of underexposed duds I haven't labelled".

Slides of Alsia Mill, St Buryan; Tresidder Mill, St Buryan; Rôskennals Mill, Sancreed in Cornwall.
Note in the box: "Roskennals, Newbridge, Penzance. Tresidder [and] Alsia, St. Buryan, Cornwall All March 1976".

Notes on Cornish watermills. Also refers to the following mills/mines:

Bude: Efford Tide Mill, Hele Mill

St Buryan: Trevorrian Mills, Vellansaga, Vellyndruchia

Callington: Redmoor and Kelly Bray Mines

Calstock: Calstock Consols; Chilsworthy Mine; Danescombe Mill; Daneycombe Mills; Drakewalls Mine; Gunnislake Clitters; Gunnislake Mine; Hawkmoor Mine; Latchley Consols; Manganese Mill, Lower Slimeford; Prince of Wales Mine; South Bedford and East Gunnislake; South Devon Mine (Wheal Bramble); S Wheal Maria (New Devon Consols); West Prince of Wales Mine; West Wheal Russel; Wheal Arthur; Wheal Benny; Wheal Ford Mine; Wheal Zion.