Photographs taken from negatives created by Peter Pearce and B. R. Billings. They appear to have been in the possession of SPAB at the time of Stephen developing them. Peter Pearce's photographs of predominantly Sussex, with some in Essex, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey, taken between 1925 and 1936. B. R. Billings' photographs were taken between 1913 and 1920.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Series of three photographs taken from W. Coles Finch's "Watermills and Windmills" entitled "The Engine About to Haul Down the Mill". Showing the mill at Ulcombe. The first image shows the mill standing, the second the mill leaning to the right as it is being pulled down. The third image shows people standing next to a steam engine. Photograph of page from Coles Finch's book
Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph of windmill at Whitstable, no sweeps. Stands next to a house. Associated text says it has been converted into a dwelling.
Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph of windmill labelled "Whitstable as it was before conversion". Associated text says it has been converted into a dwelling.
Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph showing two mills in Woodchurch. The smock mill in the foreground is in a poor condition with at least one sweep missing and a broken fantail. The mill in the background also appears to be in a dilapidated state with broken sweeps.
Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph labelled "Sandhurst - The only '5-sailer' in Kent". Three dilapidated sweeps, no fantail, adjacent wind engine.
Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph of Stelling windmill. Part 1 of a series of 5 showing new sweeps being fixed. Annotated "27 June, 1935. The stocks and middlings are first hauled up through the cannister".