This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1933 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.
Message on reverse from Stanley Freese to H E S Simmons reads "Dear Mr Simmons, I started a little trip to the north on Tuesday, and am now at Carlisle. Went over v interesting mill (motor-driven now) at Upton Pk Chester, and sketched several in the Wirral and north of Liverpool. Have found a derelict mill near here. Didn't know there were any in Cumberland. Weather fine, except Tuesday and Thursday. Yrs Sincerley, Stanley Freese."
Includes introduction not present in first draft. This is a complete version of the partial text given as Appendix I in the 2007 printed volume. Part three (Thames tributaries south of the Chilterns) is loose in the front of the ring binder along with correspondence from H E S Simmons, R S Rothwell, Buckinghamshire County Museum (1967, re. deposit of manuscript) and Lorna Cassidy, as well as notes and sketches.
Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist
The notebook contains handwritten lists of H E S Simmons postcards, photos from the Ratcliffe collection and drawings by Karl S Wood. These are presumably lists of the material collected by T J Mason. The handwritten list of Simmons cards contains gaps, but a complete typescript list of the watermill cards, perhaps by Simmons himself, has been pasted over the handwritten list. T J Mason's collection passed to Martin Mason, and was then sold; letter 46 in FWGC/1106833 from Stephen Buckland to Frank Gregory describes the sale of the Martin Mason collection, referring to a large amount of Simmons postcards, presumably those listed in this book. Frank Gregory's collection when catalogued at the Mills Archive was found to contain many Simmons postcards, now in the Simmons Collection (HESS). It also contained the Karl Wood drawings listed in this book, now catalogued as the Karl Wood Collection (WOOD); notes in T J Mason's hand were found with them.
Substantial photographic, technical, and newspaper information on windmills in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. The material appears have been collated by P J H Baker and then passed to Rex Wailes. Photographs were taken by several people, including Rex Wailes, Sid Simmons, and Richard Neville.
Black and white photograph of Yaxley tower mill, Huntingdonshire shown here with no sails. "Fig (35). Yaxley, Hunts. (H E S Simmons photograph, 25 June 1932)".
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Collated and bound file of typed research notes organised by individual mill. Entitled "Duplicate typescript matter". Probably useful to supplement what's filed elsewhere in a more stringent manner by parish name.
Collated and bound file of original research notes organised by county and individual mill. Notes from various contributors in addition to Simmons himself. Compiled by the Science Museum c1977.
Collated and bound file of original research notes organised by county and individual mill. Notes from various contributors in addition to Simmons himself. Compiled by the Science Museum c1977.
Collated and bound file of original research notes organised by county and individual mill. Notes from various contributors in addition to Simmons himself. Compiled by the Science Museum c1977.
Collated and bound file of original research notes organised by county and individual mill. Notes from various contributors in addition to Simmons himself. Compiled by the Science Museum c1977.