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

Rex Wailes' opening address

SPAB-16828
Item
1960

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

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

"Old smock mill turns again"

CUTT-02748
Item
25 July 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'The Star' about the day when new sails are to be fitted to Herringfleet Mill so Mr Rex Whales [sic] can check it out.

"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.

"Windmill can still be saved"

CUTT-03415
Item
22 April 1961

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Illustrated piece in the 'Hastings & St. Leonards Observer' showing the Mayor, Alderman C. Barfoot, inspecting the interior of Silverhill Mill with Mr Rex Wailes of the S.P.A.B. to assess how realistic its restoration could be.

"The Story of Mills"

CUTT-04010
Item
9 April 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Piece in 'The Lincoln & Stamford Mercury' about a lecture by Rex Wailes at the Town Hall in which he asked his audience to make a drawing of a windmill before it is to late and the mills have all gone.

"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.

"Three windmills selected for preservation"

CUTT-04280
Item
29 July 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Piece in the 'West Sussex Gazette' reporting the discussions by West Sussex County Council about which of their county's windmills should be picked for preservation. They were opposed. however, to preserving the combined wind-and-water mill at West Ashling since it was still lived in by the farmer who owned it.

"The Winds of Change Blow By"

CUTT-04548
Item
18 January 1962

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in 'The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder' by Reece Winstone A.R.P.S., F.R.S.A. on the theme of the variety of windmills and the arrival of the new wind turbine being put up at St.Albans that should generate 100 kW in a 30 mile per hou. wind.

Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent

DUNN-01-10-16
Item
1960

Part of Michael Dunn Collection

Rex Wailes, his daughter and party of Dutch millwrights (+ wives) who had replaced the sweeps with a new set. The people identified by Mildred Cookson are:- Chris Bremer (Dutch) to left of doorway; Anthea Wailes kneeling with white handbag; Rex sitting in doorway wearing beret; Enid Wailes, Rex's wife, on extreme right.

Dunn, Michael (1916-1993)