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View from bottom of hill, Nixey's Mill, Brill

View from bottom of hill, Nixey's Mill, Brill

REXW-25684
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

SPAB compliments card

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

Post mill, Syleham

Post mill, Syleham

REXW-25582
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on reverse reads "A typical Suffolk post mill. It was very severely damaged in a freak storm in 1946 just after its new arm had put it into first class working order. It now works with two sails only but the owner hopes to be able to replace the other two."

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

Rear 3/4 view of mill

REXW-25575
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Used by Wailes as a Christmas Card

Lines, Vincent (1909-1968), artist

Close-up of model showing interior, Sprowston Mill, Sprowston Heath

Close-up of model showing interior, Sprowston Mill, Sprowston Heath

REXW-23313
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Mr H. O Clark's model of Sprowston post mill near Norwich - model now in Science museum.

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

Rex measuring up the head wheel, Tower mill, Norton Subcourse

Rex measuring up the head wheel, Tower mill, Norton Subcourse

REXW-18038
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Rex Wailes takes measurements from the grounded headwheel and windshaft of a drainage mill. Photographed marked 'Norton Staithe' on reverse.

Unknown photographer

Hawridge Common Mill, Cholesbury, preserved

Hawridge Common Mill, Cholesbury, preserved

REXW-09511
Item
1937

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

from Harry Meyer Collection

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

Albert Dean with dog, Town Mill, Biddenden

Albert Dean with dog, Town Mill, Biddenden

REXW-24073
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Albert Dean with dog in garden. Note on reverse reads 'Biddenden, Kent, 1938' in handwriting of Rex Wailes.

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

"With the Windmillwrights in Fen and Marsh"

"With the Windmillwrights in Fen and Marsh"

REXW-MIL-04-07
File
Text written some time between 1931 and 1934; photos 1929-1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Account with photographs of millwrights in Cambridgeshire.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Popham’s Eau with Big Betty in the distance. View from Nordelph, August 1929"

"Popham’s Eau with Big Betty in the distance. View from Nordelph, August 1929"

REXW-MIL-04-07-18
Item
August 1929

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

"A sail is now pulled up and bolted to the back. The first bolt is being fixed"

"A sail is now pulled up and bolted to the back. The first bolt is being fixed"

REXW-MIL-04-07-17
Item
October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Soham. Starting to pull the Back round"

"Soham. Starting to pull the Back round"

REXW-MIL-04-07-16
Item
October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Soham. Second stage more advanced. The haulers are partly hidden by the ‘drug’"

"Soham. Second stage more advanced. The haulers are partly hidden by the ‘drug’"

REXW-MIL-04-07-15
Item
October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Raising the sail back.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Handing the sail into position"

"Handing the sail into position"

REXW-MIL-04-07-12
Item
October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

The Hunts fitting a new sail.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"The fenland’s story famed. View from Mere Mill with Soham church visible 2 miles away"

"The fenland’s story famed. View from Mere Mill with Soham church visible 2 miles away"

REXW-MIL-04-07-11
Item
September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"View from wind-shaft of Mere Mill looking towards Ely Cathedral. The sail shown has no 'gor...

"View from wind-shaft of Mere Mill looking towards Ely Cathedral. The sail shown has no 'gore'"

REXW-MIL-04-07-10
Item
September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

'Gore' is used to describe an extra piece held between the whip and the stock.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Fixing the bolts"

"Fixing the bolts"

REXW-MIL-04-07-09
Item
September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Tom Hunt fixing the bolts to secure the new sail.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"We arrived at Mere Mill'"

"We arrived at Mere Mill'"

REXW-MIL-04-07-08
Item
September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

The Hunts arriving at Mere Mill with a new sail.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Merry work. The back has just touched the ground'"

"Merry work. The back has just touched the ground'"

REXW-MIL-04-07-07
Item
November 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

The miller with family and friends pulling the 'anti-bump' rope to keep the sail back from bumping against the mill as it is lowered.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Riding the 'magic sail'"

"Riding the 'magic sail'"

REXW-MIL-04-07-06
Item
November 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Fixing the chain. View from the lower end of the sail"

"Fixing the chain. View from the lower end of the sail"

REXW-MIL-04-07-05
Item
November 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Tom and Jack fastening a chain to the poll hub.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

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