Black and white photograph of a postcard showing Mühlenturm tower mill [Stadtmühle] in Zons am Rhein, Germany.
"Fig (12) Zons am Rhein, windmill tower of town wall. [Old (pre-1914), nd postcard]."

Describes the Westphalian Mill Road and its mills and sites. Mill Circle (1978) aim is to preserve the cultural in heretence. Battle of Minden (1759) was most significant event of the Seven Year War (1756 - 63) in the Westphalia Region. There are other tourist sites mentioned in this guide.

Notes, photocopies and correspondence.

Collected papers and handouts from Mills Research Group meetings and conferences. Includes:
Filby, Peter, 'A gazetteer of drainage windmills in eastern England c 1550-2000' (2008)
Jones, David, 'Animal power and the oblique treadwheel' (Oct 2006)
Jones, David, 'Mills, maladies and magic' (Oct 2006)
Bryan, A A, 'Identifying tower windmills. by batter angle comparison' (Oct 2006)
Plunkett, David, 'Anglesey tide mills - a 2006 assessment of surviving sites' (Oct 2006)
Bryan, A A, 'Mills of Ronald Hawksley' (Oct 2006)
Kirsopp, Shirley, 'Ryde Water and the mills on the eastern Yar, Isle of Wight' (2005)
Hughes, Gareth, 'Wind engines in the Morse collection ' (1999)
Mayberry, Tom, 'Documents relating to milling: An archivist's perspective' (2003)
Roberts, Niall, 'The Berne Munster watermill window' (2001)
Roberts, Niall, 'Damsels, raps and rotation' (2000)
Harverson, Michael 'The tide mills of Basra' (1990)
Roberts, Niall, 'Some Chinese millstones' (1988)
Crocker, Alan, 'A poncelet waterwheel near Guildford, Surrey', 'Mills and milling in northern Cyprus', 'Wilf Foreman's woad mill' (1999)
Report of discussion re Mills Archive (c 2002)
Bryan, Phillipa and Tony, 'Carlton watermill, Nottinghamshire' (c 2002)
Bignell, Bill, 'The 'tower mill' at Pricovy in the Czech Republic' (no date)
Kay, Desmond 'The conservation and recording of windmills in Poland' (1989)

Photographs taken in France, Austria, Spain, Czech Republic, Japan, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, England.

"German watermills 2006"; "SPAB Somerset Tour"; "Kendal Museum and photo of piece of millstones in Ken's garden";"Pantin nr Paris";"Ullesthorpe etc"

Mills in Flensburg. Unidentified mills.

60 page 'letter' sent to Wailes' wife, Enid. The letter is in the form of a diary recording Wailes' trip to the Leipzig Trade Fair. It records Wailes' impressions of his train trip through Germany, his fellow travellers and a visit to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

The last ten pages record Wailes' trip north of Leipzig 'on the main Berlin road & as soon as we got out of the suburbs, there was a mill to every village we saw. Nearly all were post mills, & nearly all were the same. Patent sails, no round house tailpole with a winch on the end, straight pitched roof, vertical weatherboarding all tarred.' He comments that those mills near the main road had advertisments on their sides.

Wailes records a visit to a mill near Delitzsch where he meets the miller, Kurt Schumann, and 'took many photos, both inside and out'. There was also a visit to an unidentified tower mill, built in 1886, which Schumann described as a 'Hollandsche műhle,' which was brick-built with a fan-tail and octagonal cap. Wailes is particularly struck by the fact that it, 'had a lift instead of a chain for the sack hoist!!'.

A 'poltrok' mill at Rődgen is also visited (converted from a post mill in 1924, the original dating from 1614). Wailes comments, 'the mill is chock full of new machinery and new methods of drive, sufficient of the old being left to make it intensely interesting'.

Wailes concludes the letter, 'Must stop now. Dresden tomorrow'.