E. M. Gardner produced an extensive and expansive catalogue of handwritten notes relating to an array of watermills throughout England and Wales between the years 1947 and 1955. The handwritten notes of Gardner are arranged clearly by county in alphabetical order commencing with Cambridgeshire. Gardner's notes record details of the geographical locations, visual descriptions of the buildings and the extent to which the buildings had survived the test of time as well as the names of the present and past millers. All of E. M. Gardner's notes have been collated and amassed together having been separated from the notebooks of inventories, index cards, photographs and postcards which also comprise the E. M. Gardner collection. There are some newspaper cuttings which Gardner collected herself. The decision has been made to include and incorporate these newspaper cuttings with the handwritten notes for the relevant and at the same time interesting and valuable information that they impart.

The folder contains handwritten notes which encompass an array of watermills from the counties of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire.

The folder contains handwritten notes along with various typed letters from the National Library of Wales. In addition, the folder also holds handwritten letters of thanks, issue slips from visits to library and used to hold 1 photograph (now in EMGC-04-12) and 2 postcards of unidentified mills in Merioneth (now in the postcard collection).

The folder contains handwritten notes on North Wales Mills.The folder used to hold an envelope with 6 photographs of watermills and an envelope addressed to Miss Gardner which contained 9 photographs of waterwheels with full descriptions attached from E.J Fasham. The photographs have been removed and transferred into a new folder numbered "EMGC-04" and catalogued as "EMGC-04-13".

The folder contains a miscellany of handwritten notes ; most of which are extracts from the academic journal articles E.M.Gardner consulted as part of her extensive research. E. M. Gardner copied out extracts from a number of academic journals which can all be found in this folder. In addition, the folder also contains photocopies of Newspaper articles as well as a numerical list of windmills in England and Wales compiled by Gardner. There is also a photocopy of an article from a geographical journal dated March 1975 and entitled “Power from the Old Stream Mills” along with an official letter from the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

The first folder contains Index cards which concern the watermills of Wales. The Index cards are separated into two sections – one unlabelled and the other labelled Merioneth.

This file contains handwritten index cards which can be best described as a miscellaneous series of documents. There are several groups in one box relating to different topics.

The first section of index cards concerns general subject matter and is organised alphabetically. The second section of handwritten index cards are divided into the following subsections of place names: Cocking ; Cockingforge ; Birdham ; Bishopstone ; Fishbourne ; Nutbourne ; Pagham ; Sidlesham ; Shipley ; Chethurst ; Ipling ; Linch ; Trotton and Stedham.

The third group is a collection of index cards held together by elastic band entitled Merioneth. The fourth group of handwritten index cards and notes are arranged by alphabetical order following directly on from the Merioneth collection. The fifth group is a collection of alphabetised handwritten index cards on Sussex. This collection used to include 3 photographs.

The sixth category is a collection of handwritten notes and index cards on Heyshott. The seventh group consists of handwritten index cards which used to contain 5 illustrated postcards.

The seventh group is organised into the following subsections: Cornwall ; Cheshire ; Durham ; Essex; Hampshire; Kent; Oxford ; Norfolk ; Lincolnshire ; Salop ; Staffordshire ; Suffolk ; Surrey ; Warwick ; Yorkshire ; Wales ; Lewisham, Shetland Orkney and W. ham.

The eighth group is entitled “Calico Printers. Four Mills. R. Lee” comprising of handwritten notes on index cards arranged in alphabetical order while the ninth group is a collection of handwritten index cards entitled Shetland Orkney. In addition, there is also a book of handwritten notes starting with Barony Mill Birsay. There are two pages of folded up handwritten notes on Scotland Highlands islands, a note from Mr David Davidson addressed to Miss Gardner, a copy of article entitled “Orkney's changing agriculture” by Alexander Calder, a loose page of handwritten notes, handwritten note from W. Jacobson addressed to Miss Gardner as well as two handwritten postcards (not illustrated).

This Sub - Series comprises of one photograph of an Unidentified Mill situated in Merionethshire which was contained within a Christmas greetings card.

This Sub - Series is comprised of 88 photographs of a wide range of watermills located across the length and breadth of England and Wales. The photographs have been arranged into the alphabetical order of the respective name of the county in which they are located.