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Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills

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'.

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

UK Tide Mills

Box 6. File of research notes and other data relating to tide mills in England: Kent, Cornwall to Sussex.

Minchinton, Walter (1921-1996), professor

Histories of Wacker Mill and Carbeal Mill

A written history of Wacker Mill in Antony, Cornwall. It includes historical information on mill from the 13th century to 1999, information on the architectural and technical features of the mill, and its inhabitants from 1580-1841. There is also a section on the Hosking family who occupied the mill from 1845-1929. A section provides information on the Tregantle and Scaesdon Railway, There are printouts of photographs of the mill and its surroundings. An earlier draft is also included.
Also a similar history of Carbeal/Carbeile Mill.

Payne, Margery