Material relating to the relocation of West Mill, Brighton to Preston, Sussex. Material includes a copy of Hawkhurst Parish Magazine (November 1996) with a small piece by Stephen on the mill; The Fine Art Society Spting '92 catalogue with an image of the painting of the mill being moved; a copy of Preston Manor's guidebook showing the copy of the painting at the manor; correspondence with David Beevers of Brighton Borough Council regarding the paintings; photograph of Frank Gregory's photograph of the painting; copious typed research notes relating to the mill.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Research material on French mills, originally filed with correspondence with Claude Rivals. Claude Rivals: Draft translation of: A Structural classification of French corn windmills; "Moulins a Vent de France Grands Types Regionaux; illustrated tables of windmill classification types, in French.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Research material, correspondence, photographs on Bembridge Windmill; Samuel Lambert's waterwheel patent 1819, and pages from an encyclopaedia on 'windmill'; slide of Ambleside Old Mill; photocopied pages from "Mechanick Powers" 1696; pages from "New Scientist" 29 March 1973 on Ironbridge Gorge Museum; photographs of John Thorp's models of London Bridge waterworks; photographs of Australian windpumps, Brisbane tower mill, Kinderdijk, Jack and Jill Mills, Clayton; copy of "Walker's Monthly" February 1930 with article on Sussex windmills by G M Fowell; an other miscellaneous mill material.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Letter to the Guildhall Library librarian complaining about the new computer catalogue in 1993 (typical letter of Stephen's); reprint of his article "The Denis Sanders Mill Collection (Part I)" with some handwritten notes; two transcriptions from his mill research notebook 1995/13 of The Times reports on mill accidents; crude pen drawing of Over Mill, Cambridgeshire.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
2 photographs of windmills in Antwerp, information leaflets, and photocopies of magazine articles from "Tourisme-Provincie Antwerpen" (in Flemish), June 1965, and a copy of the same magazine, 15 April 1965, relating to windmills and watermills in Antwerp, Belgium.
Published typescript, by Stephen Buckland, entitled "John Smeaton's Windmill Designs", includes research material and correspondence. The paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2nd Mill Research Conference, by the Mills Research Group in 1984 and is available in the Mills Archive Library.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
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]."
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Black and white photograph of a postcard, showing a tower mill at Béthune, France. "Fig (51) Postcard published at Béthune, Pas-de-Calais. [Card mutilated by censor. Written date June 8, 1915, in message by British soldier]".
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
