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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

"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

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

Presentation of certificate, Heapham

REXW-WIN-03-09-058
Item
2 June 1952

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Captioned "Presentation of S.P.A.B Windmill Certificate to Geo. E. Hewitt by Rex Wailes. Whit Monday 1952."

Unknown photographer

Rex Wailes

REXW-IMG-05-056
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on reverse of photograph reads, ''Langley Marsh''; however another copy in the collection is labelled "Norton Staithe".

Unknown photographer

Demolition of Royton Mill

REXW-1121361
Item
1950

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Correspondence re demolition of mill

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Print, undated

REXW-1121807
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Detailed notes on mills in the UK and abroad

REXW-26030
File
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Rex Wailes and A J Thrower atop the cap staging, High Mill, Berney Arms

ASHL-NEG-295
Item
September 1945

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Rex Wailes with colleagues on a mill visit.

"Rex Wailes at Gayton Mill"

ASHL-NEG-318
Item
August 1946

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

"2 Groups at Berney Arms Mill"

ASHL-NEG-339
Item
16 May 1948

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

"Wailes against wall of base of Cranbrook mill"

JSPB-24340
Item
23 July 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

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

Album XXII

JSPB-NEG-22
Subseries
August 1960 - 1 January 1961

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent and Sussex.

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

"Mill Expert's Visit"

CUTT-03407
Item
22 March 1958

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Piece in the 'Hastings & St. Leonards Observer' drawing attention to the forthcoming illustrated talk by Mr Rex Wailes, the country's leading mills expert.

"One of last three"

CUTT-02811
Item
14 January 1955

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Bury Free Press' about recent efforts to get the post mill at Woolpit, Suffolk, preserved.

"Old windmill made 'Boy Proof' "

CUTT-03572
Item
17 August 1951

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in 'The Evening News' that,Rex Wailes had recommended that, following its restoration by S.P.A.B., Chesterton Windmill should be made "wind, bird and boy proof".

"Suffolk Windmills"

CUTT-04189
Item
6 July 1983

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.

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