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'Notes Watermills'

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.

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

Pocket notebook - 1945

A repurposed diary for 1945, cover removed and measuring approx. 7 cm x 13.5 cm, containing brief notes on a variety of milling matters (as well as other topics, particularly music). The notes include: a memo regarding a call to Matheson of the National Trust regarding Bourne Ponds Mill, Colchester; a 3-page list of mills, possibly depicting the development of windmills through time (from 'The Windmill Psalter' to 'Napolean's Raft'); a list of Lincolnshire mills. There are more detailed notes about the mills listed at 'Place access points' below, including Partington's Mill, Auckland, New Zealand (unindexed).

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

Pocket notebook - 1948

A repurposed, leather-covered diary for 1948 measuring approx. 7.5 cm x 14 cm and containing a list of mills for which photographs were required. Also contains notes of a visit to Upminster Windmill with brief recommendations as to repair/conservation.

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

Wiltshire

Notes on Wiltshire watermills. Also refers to the following mills: Ratcliffe of Malmesbury, Notes on 1991 Wiltshire Woolen Industry Talk by Kenneth Rogers, Allcannings, Baulkington, Lower Mill (Bishopsbourne), Croucheston (Bishopstone) Watermill, Bromham Watermill, Calne Watermill, Upper Mill Quemerford (Calne Without) Watermill, Gatcombe (Castle Combe) Watermill, Lower Colham (Castle Combe) Watermill, Trafalgar (Charlton) Watermill, Chippenham Cloth Factory, Badbury (Chiseldon) Watermill, Corsham Watermill, Coombe (Enford) Watermill, Hinton Watermill, Pinnold's (Lacock) Watermill, Wick Farm Pumping Wheel, Liddington, Upper Liddington Watermill, Little Cheverill Watermill, Avon (Malmesbury) Watermill, Castle (King's)(Marlborough) Watermill, Folly Farm (Mildenhall) Watermill, Poulton (Mildenhall) Watermill, Poulshott Watermill, Ridgeway (Purton) Watermill, Axford (Ramsbury) Watermill, Roundway Pumping Wheel, Shipton Watermill, Old Stert Watermill, Mill Cottage (Stert) Watermill, Stourton (Gasper) Watermill, Sutton Benger (Draycot Cerne) Watermill, Swindon Watermill, Ladd's (Swindon) Watermill, Wanborough Watermill, Whaddon Watermill, Farleigh Hungerford (Wingfield) Watermill, King's (Wroughton) Watermill, Lower Wroughton Watermill, Watermill below Woodham Watermill (Wroughton), Wylyle Watermill.

Album of photographs including the Buckland family

Whilst the album includes photographs of windmills, castles, churches, and other interests, additional photographs of importance to Stephen include his childhood home, himself and his brother Francis as children, his father Charles Buckland, his mother Jessie Hatch Flemming, and maternal grandfather Percy Flemming.
Non-mill photographs include: Cuddeson church; Appleton, Berkshire; Tenterden, Kent; Icklesham, Sussex; Appledore, Kent; Rye, Sussex; Cranbrook, Kent; Pevensey Castle, Sussex; Bodham Castle, Sussex; New Romney; Tonbridge Castle; Farnham Castle; Guildford Castle; Castle Motte, Ongar; Thaxted, Sussex; St Vulfran Church, Abbeville; St-Valery-sur-Somme; Rue, Somme; Saint-Riquier, Somme; Boulogne; Bruges; Ghent; Hampstead; Abbey Gate, Bury St Edmunds; Canterbury Cathedral; Washington Street, Hastings; Rye, Sussex; Westminster Bridge; Embankment; dismantled Dome and Skylon from Embankment.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"J. Bryant"

Correspondence between Rex Wailes and John Bryant, millwright including recollections.

Pocket notebook - 1935 or later

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1935 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the windmills itemised at 'Place access points' below. Reference is made to the impact of gales at Winchelsea (which eventually blew down in gales in 1978 and 1987).

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

Pocket notebook - Suffolk windmills -1930 or later

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1930 measuring 7.5 cm x 10 cm, most of the pages being blank, but containing a list of the Suffolk mills itemised at 'Place access points' below, with brief descriptions for each one. These include details of the current mill owner (where applicable) and their condition (or date of demolition, if applicable).

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

Pocket notebook - 1931 or later

A repurposed pocket diary for August 1931 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Kent" with brief notes on, and/or references to, the mills listed at "Place access points" below. The notebook is only partially complete.

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

Research notebook for various mills, 1932 to 1934

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Bozeat, Kibworth Harcourt, Halnaker, Outwood" comprising research notes, drawings and measurements from visits to the following mills: Bozeat Mill on 25 March 1932 (8 pages); Moreton Mill on 20 June 1932 (8 pages); Kibworth Harcourt on 28 May 1933 (14 pages - including notes of old inscriptions, "Daniel Hutchinson Miller 1711" and "William Fellow 1794"); Halnaker Mill examined on 12 December 1933 with Sir William Bird (3 pages); The Old Mill, at Cornwall Road, Buxton on 22 June 1934 (7 pages and referencing Joshua Ashby & Sons); notes about Outwood post mill (4 pages); "Pure White Laundry, Toot[ing]" on 27 June 1934 (2 pages); further pages of assorted notes including an extract from an 1817 account of money expended at Halnaker Mill (13 pages).

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

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