"With the Windmillwrights in Fen and Marsh"
- REXW-MIL-04-07
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- 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)
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"With the Windmillwrights in Fen and Marsh"
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"
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"A sail is now pulled up and bolted to the back. The first bolt is being fixed"
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Soham. Starting to pull the Back round"
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Soham. Second stage more advanced. The haulers are partly hidden by the ‘drug’"
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Raising the sail back.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Handing the sail into position"
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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"
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"View from wind-shaft of Mere Mill looking towards Ely Cathedral. The sail shown has no 'gore'"
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'Gore' is used to describe an extra piece held between the whip and the stock.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
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Tom Hunt fixing the bolts to secure the new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
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The Hunts arriving at Mere Mill with a new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Merry work. The back has just touched the ground'"
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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)
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Fixing the chain. View from the lower end of the sail"
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Tom and Jack fastening a chain to the poll hub.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"At Burwell. First stage of hauling"
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
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Tom Hunt standing on the sails after disconnecting and removing the striking rod.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"The curve of the sail. Thompson in his yard "
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Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
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Thomas and Fred Hunt.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Bassingbourne Mills, Cambridgeshire
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Shows three mills, two tower mills and one post mill with a chimney in the background.
Latchmore, Thomas Bennell (1832-1908), photographer
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