- MEYE-ALB-05
- File
- 1927 - 1965
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
A scrapbook-style album containing photographs, newspaper cuttings and ephemera on mills in Essex.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
A scrapbook-style album containing photographs, newspaper cuttings and ephemera on mills in Essex.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
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
Sale of property: E Chopping & Sons Ltd to C Hitchcock Ltd, Fingringhoe (Essex)
Conveyance of freehold portion of the Roman River Roller Mills at Fingringhoe, Essex, from E Chopping & Sons Ltd to C Hitchcock Ltd. Deed re. the sale of E Chopping & Sons' company shares to E Marriage & Son Ltd.
E Chopping & Sons Ltd, millers
Slides of Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey mills
Part of Jon Sass Collection
Slides of various mills around Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey, and elsewhere.
Travis, Edward, millwright
Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A Reporters' Notebook containing:
Northants: notes taken from 'Northants Notes & Queries, New Series, Vol.4, 1912-1920' relating to: a 1609 grant by James 1 of a post mill at Kettering; the history of an unindexed tower mill (located on the site of a former post mill on Rockingham Road, Kettering) which was demolished in 1893; 18th c. maps of Kettering showing the location of various mills and a 19th c. print showing a post mill at Peterborough; also notes about the post mill at Seaton, Rutland which was demolished in 1917 as well as the nearby watermill, Henry Royce being said to have worked at both mills as a boy.
Suffolk: research notes relating to Suffolk windmills including construction dates, operational status in 1926,1939 and 1955 and including the notable features listed in 'Subject access points' below.
Windmill restoration: eight pages of draft narrative rehearsing the demise of wind and watermills since the late 19th c. and extolling the efforts of John Russell to restore and preserve Union Mill, Cranbrook. The narrative rehearses the preservation efforts made by a number of local authorities (counties listed in 'Place access points' below) arguing that it should be essential for such work to be their responsibility.
Windmills still in operation: notes running from back-to-front in the notebook listing, 'How many still in use', which are 'Workable' and 'When used and why'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Sussex, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Notes taken on visit to John Brown, millwright of Leiston; miscellaneous corresponence and notes relating to East Anglian mills.
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse reads "Faerie Cottage, Finchingfield. Alan Arthur's cottage taken by AA & HA about 1924 or 1923. Where Rex Wailes stayed whilst looking at mills and met Hallam Ashley".
Part of Jon Sass Collection
4 boxes of 35mm slides of Essex, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Dorset, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Bedfordshire mills.
Travis, Edward, millwright
Research material on wind engines
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
"Halladay/Angmering material including English patents, 1859-1868, Bury & Pollard's wind engine, Southwark & JKM correspondence, 1994, Hamish VALENTINE'S patent wind engine, Earls Colne, Ex".
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
See attached list.
Smith, Roland W, mill enthusiast
Part of E M Gardner Collection
The first item is a photograph featuring the Toll Gate post of a mill which is entitled simply as "Abbey Mills". The date of production for the photocopy is recorded as being June 1952. The location of this mill is not identified.
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
Part of E M Gardner Collection
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Notes on Audley End, Essex; Sutton Marsh, Lincs; Hounslow, Middlesex; Dunbar, Haddington; Stukeley; Robert Hooke; USA; Tibet; Krumtz.
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Correspondence and notes relating to Essex windmills.
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Correspondence regarding Rex Wailes' "Essex Windmills" paper.
Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection
Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection
Synopsis of talk given by Vincent Pargeter on Essex watermills, based on his time spent as County Millwright with Essex County Council from 1975 to 2000.
"For HAMP report: Windmills and watermills"
Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection
Report on mills in Essex.