- ROBE-130
- File
- 1980s - 2012
Part of Niall Roberts Collection
Photograph of Rex Wailes, Times obitiuary for Rex Wailes, obituaries for Frank Gregory, obituary for Niall Roberts.
Roberts family
Part of Niall Roberts Collection
Photograph of Rex Wailes, Times obitiuary for Rex Wailes, obituaries for Frank Gregory, obituary for Niall Roberts.
Roberts family
FWG 03566 - Individuals and general
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
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.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'Daily Telegraph' of an obituary for Rex Wailes, an expert on windmills. The obituary contains details of his life as well as his work on windmills.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'The Times' of an obituary for Rex Wailes, an expert on windmills. The obituary contains details of his life as well as his work on windmills.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Piece in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' on how the pioneering steps taken in East Suffolk to preserve some of their windmills is being followed by West Sussex and Bucks County Councils.
"Rambling Recollections of a Rural Miller", extracts
Author's life stories. Photocopies of pp 14, 42, 44, 45.
Hancock, Philip (d c1988), miller
Slides of Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey mills
Part of Jon Sass Collection
Slides of various mills around Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey, and elsewhere.
Travis, Edward, millwright
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Note on the reverse: "RW & Mrs Wailes at Over 30 March 1974".
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Note on reverse: "Rex Wailes at Over mill, Cambs, about to present SPAB mill certificate to G C Wilson, on 30.3.74".
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Note on reverse: "Rex Wailes & G. Chris Wilson on cap of Over mill, Cambs, 30.3.74".
Rex and Enid Wailes outside Over Mill
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Note on reverse: "Rex & Mrs Wailes at Over mill, Cambs, 30.3.74">
Rex Wailes and Chris Wilson at Over
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Note on the reverse: "RW & Chris Wilson on fantail of Over tower mill, 30/3/74".
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Note on reverse: "Rex Wailes & G C Wilson, after having been presented with mill certificate, at Over mill, 30-3-74".
"'Jigsaw' move for Suffolk watermill"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from the 'Eastern Daily Press' about how the ancient watermill near Holbrook in Suffolk is to be dismantled and re-erected at the Stowmarket museum of Rural Life.
Correspondence about foreign mills, 1969-1971
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Rex Wailes on the porch of a toe mill in Temmes, North Bothnia
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse states:
"RW on porch of the Temmes Parish Museum Mill
Mill dated 1816".
Littow, Sirkka
Rex Wailes and others outside a toe mill in Temmes, North Bothnia
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse states:
"Mill dated 1816
The Temmes Parish Museum Mill
Auvo Hirsjarvi, Aarine Kopisto, Lauri Littov, RW, Paavo Littov".
Littow, Sirkka
Joseph Addison's notebook - Dorset
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A notebook belonging to Joseph Addison, found among those belonging to Rex Wailes. The notebook is labelled 'Book No.7' and features detailed notes and drawings in Addison's distinctive hand. Whilst the notebook is not named, the date of the visits recorded in the notebook correspond with photographs of his held in both the Mills Archive collection and by the Historic England Archive.
As well as details of the various mills visited (see 'Place access points' below) and particularly detailed records of the photographs taken, the notebook features copious notes taken from visits to various Dorset libraries as well as to the county archives. The notes include: lists of mills featuring in old maps of Dorset, including several that are unindexed, for example Moor Mill at Higher Nyland; notes taken from 'Hutchinson' at Poole Library, the Great Canford Book 1822 and various other 17th c. to 19th c. property records relating to historic mills and millers in West Lulworth, Canford Magna, Sydling St Nichols, Dorchester, Whitchurch Canonicorum, the Bryanston Estate, Blandford Forum and East Stoke. There are several references to Rex Wailes' work on Dorset mills, including obtaining a 'list of mills supplied by Simmons to Rex Wailes' relating to 7 unidentified mills from Dorchester archives.
Other sections include: detailed drawings of 'Cut Mill' and 'Creekmoor' [Bushels Mill, Poole], Lattiford Mill, Wincanton and at Bryanston; notes on a tour of mills between Beaminster, Uplyme and Lyme Regis following a visit from a Mr and Mrs Willoughby (also cross referencing notes on the area made by Rex Wailes); notes taken after attempting to locate Sow Mill (near Sowley Pond) on the Beaulieu Estate; notes taken on a visit to the site of SW Potteries at Parkstone, Poole.
A large section focuses on the manufacture, location and use of horse gear in Dorset, including notes from Kelly's Directories on horse gear manufacturers, particularly Taylor & Sons, Dorchester and Watson & Haig, Andover. Notes are made following a visit to Birkin House, Dorchester (where a horse gear had been used to draw water from a well until 1957) and of numerous attempts to locate horse gears at various Dorset properties. Detailed drawings are made of of the horse gear at Lower Monkwood Farm, Pilsdon, Bridport and Pylewell House.
Addison, Joseph