Archive Catalogue

SPAB-01384
Item
1938

Note on reverse reads 'Bidden, Kent 1938' in handwriting of Rex Wailes. Mildred Cookson has added 'Unidentified, Biddenden, Kent. Probably shows Albert Dean + Family'.

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

"Interior Bourne [sic] Mill"

SPAB-WIS-CAMBS-15-18
Item
1941

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

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

"Bourne [sic] Mill, Mr Papworth - miller"

SPAB-WIS-CAMBS-15-19
Item
1941

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

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

Jesse Wightman, Saxtead Green Mill, Saxtead

SPAB-01383
Item
After 1958

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

J E Wightman at Saxtead with plate of Samson Head from Broad Green mill, Wetheringsett.

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

Jesse Wightman, Saxtead Green Mill, Saxtead

SPAB-01372
Item
After 1958

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

J E Wightman and brake wheel from Saxtead Green - replaced by new wheel
(Also shown is top of tail wall from Saxtead mill rebuild)

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

Cobbin's Mill, Downham Road, Ely

SPAB-WIS-CAMBS-31-02
Item
16 August 1943

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

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

Cobbin's Mill, Downham Road, Ely

SPAB-WIS-CAMBS-31-01
Item
1926

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

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

Under construction at Soham

SPAB-01374
Item
June 1935

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Half-size replica of Dyke smock mill, Lincolnshire, destined for Kenilworth, Warwickshire, under construction by Hunts at their millwrighting works, Soham, Cambridgeshire.

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