- MEYE-11781
- Item
- 1947
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Page originally removed from MEYE-ALB-05 in September 2003. Item was returned to the album in March 2024.
Barker, Felix, journalist
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Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Page originally removed from MEYE-ALB-05 in September 2003. Item was returned to the album in March 2024.
Barker, Felix, journalist
Preservation plea, smock mill, Upminster
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Two exterior views, smock mill, Upminster
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Also 24th May 1937 cutting from Daily Telegraph
Tower mill, White Roding, in working order
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Unknown photographer
Under repair with roof rafters removed
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
The mill is being repaired as a landmark. Its original sails are still in position, although the reefing stage is missing.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Note on the reverse reads: "Doris & I to Bardfield 21.5.38".
Farmer ploughing the fields with a pair of shire horses.
Unknown photographer
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.
Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.
Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
"Tide Mills in England and Wales"
Part of Brian Eighteen Mill Collection
A resume of tide mills in England and Wales with descriptions of notable tide mill and their historical context. Discusses tidal ranges on some rivers e.g. River Thames, Severn.
Day, Geoffrey
Pocket notebook - 1933 or later
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed pocket diary for October 1933 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm containing notes on the mills listed at 'Place access points' below. These include more detailed notes about: the toll board and exterior cleats at Llanddeusant, Anglesey; some drawings under the heading, 'Windmills for the Generation of Electricity, Institute for Research in Agricultural Engineering, University of Oxford'; a reference to 'Parsonage Mill' at Eastbourne 'painted by Hine'; a reference to a book of photos of Eastbourne town hall showing mills in the 1870s and referencing, 'E.L.B. 50 years ago'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Pocket notebook - Gayton and Ashdon mills
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A small pocket notebook (measuring 7.5 cm by 11 cm) containing notes on Gayton, Ashdon and Sh[aw] Mills and notes "per Mr P. Davies" about a Mr Horton of Hythe regarding the use of sack hoist chains by his father and grandfather, W.B and J. Horton, respectively.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex