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Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher With digital objects
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Windmill, Bidston Hill

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."

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"Sussex Windmills"

Piece from the 'Eastbourne Gazette' noting the articles by H. E. S. Simmons that have appeared recently in the 'Sussex County Magazine', attempting an inventory of windmills.

"Record of our lost treasures"

Article in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' about the photographic record of our mills heritage which H.E.S.Simmons built up and which is now available at the Science Museum.

FWG 03566 - Individuals and general

Correspondence with Ken W. Hamlin; J. Kenneth Major; Archie S. Palmer; H.E.S. Simmons; Lawrence Stevens; Rex Wailes; Gerrard Young and other individuals. Indexed by Ken Kirsopp during stage 2 of Frank Gregory Online.