Archive Catalogue

Rex Wailes' opening address

SPAB-16823
Item
1960

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Taken at the Celebration arranged to accompany the rasing of the sweeps

Rex Wailes' opening address

SPAB-16824
Item
1960

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Taken at the Celebration arranged to accompany the rasing of the sweeps

Saunderson's, Millwrights of Louth, Lincolnshire (unpublished) Vol 2

JSPB-1118713
File
c 1989

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Album of research notes and raw material compiled by Stephen Buckland.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Mill Research Notebook 27a

JSPB-1125449
Item
10 December 1960 - 23 April 1961

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Blue hardback notebook. Continued on from Notebook 26. Contains correspondence, transcripts, sketches, meetings with people and notes on wind and water mills in Cambridgeshire and Kent including Outwood; Willingham; Histon; (Kent) Benenden; Tenterden; Frittenden; Silverhill; Northiam; Icklesham; Chillenden; (Essex) Orsett; Fryerning; Stock; Mountnessing; Saling; Bocking Churchend; Upminster; (Sussex) Mark Cross; Argos Hill; Wadhurst; (Beds) Cardington Bridge; Bromham; Stevington; (Oxon) Upper Arncot.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Portrait of Rex Wailes

ASHL-GPN-CM-015
Item
1939

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

Portrait of Rex Wailes

ASHL-GPN-CM-016
Item
1939

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

Rex Wailes in office at 382 Euston Road

ASHL-GPN-CM-019
Item
1950

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

Obituaries

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

"Over Mill Cambs"

JSPB-PHT-12
Subseries
30 March 1974

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

"Presentation of certificate to GCW by RW; ph of RW & wife".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Rex and Enid Wailes at Over

JSPB-PHT-50-39
Item
30 March 1974

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

Suffolk Millers Notebook

DOLM-1122143
Item
No date

Part of Peter Dolman Collection

A notebook compiled by Peter Dolman from an unspecified date, mainly dealing with notes about Suffolk Millers, but including other content as well. Subjects within include: Various notes about individual mills; Anglesey Windmills; Notes for Norfolk photos; Oldham's Collection; Cambridgeshire Rex Wailes Collection; Kelly's Directory from 1885 and a list of Suffolk Millers.

Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller

Rex Wailes on the porch of a toe mill in Temmes, North Bothnia

REXW-FIN-037-04
Item
1969

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on reverse states:
"RW on porch of the Temmes Parish Museum Mill
Mill dated 1816".

Littow, Sirkka

Post mill, Hythe, Colchester

REXW-ESS-21
File
No Date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

File entry's REXW-ESS-20 and REXW-ESS-21 are of the same mill, but were filed in different envelopes by Rex Wailes

Cock Green Mill, Felsted

REXW-ESS-26
File
No Date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Report - Little Hadham

NICH-REP-UK-016
File
18 June 1979

Part of David Nicholls (Millwright) Collection

(1) One page report by Rex Wailes on Little Hadham smock mill (18 June 1979) referencing "good photographs of the mill herself and a close up of her sails" . The report supports the restoration of the mill as a piece of history "in the solid" as well as advocating for the need for public access to it. Ongoing maintenance is advised, Wailes offering to assist further on the fitting of lightening conductors, "if Mr Nicholls has not already advised on this matter".
(2) Two black and white photographs of the mill (undated, but possibly those referred to by Wailes at (1) above).
(3) Nicholl's draft report (9 pages, double-sided manuscript notes and measurements).
(4) Photocopied pages from "English Windmills, Vol.2", Smith, D. (1932), Architectural Press, pp. 110-114.
(5) Nicholl's 13-page report for Millwrights International Limited to the mill's owner, A.H. Edwards, marked "Confidential". Contains a detailed report on the mill's condition together with a four-stage repair proposal and costings totalling approx. £115,000 (Nicholls adding that even a modified programme of works could not restore the mill for less than £70,000). Help with applications for grant aid is offered, Nicholls commenting that the mill, "is far too important a building to lose".

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright