Archive Catalogue

Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent, workmen by the brake wheel

REXW-IMG-04-147
Item
1958

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent, workmen by brake wheel

REXW-IMG-04-145
Item
1958

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent, The Bremer brothers

REXW-IMG-04-144
Item
1958

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent, one of the Bremer brothers

REXW-IMG-04-148
Item
1958

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent, one of the Bremer brothers

REXW-IMG-04-149
Item
1958

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent - millwrights

REXW-IMG-04-061
Item
July 1960

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Bremer Brothers and men who repaired the mill.

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

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)

Union Mill, Cranbrook

SPAB-01399
Item
19 July 1958

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Replacement of stocks by C Bremer of Groningen

The Restoration of Kent's Largest Windmill (2 of 2)

MCFC-21223
Item
1960

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Extract by J.M. from 'Milling', 2nd September 1960. Continued from item 21227.

The Restoration of Kent's Largest Windmill (1 of 2)

MCFC-21227
Item
1960

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Extract by J.M. from 'Milling', 2nd September 1960, p226. Continued on item 21223.

The Famous Union Mill at Cranbrook

MCFC-21208
Item
1958

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Extract from 'Milling', 2nd August 1958

"The Bremer's acting for ITV newsreel men (floods)"

JSPB-24338
Item
24 July 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

6/5
Mr Bremer adjusting the tentering gear.

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

"The Bremer's acting for ITV newsreel men (floods)"

JSPB-24337
Item
24 July 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

6/5
Mr Bremer adjusting the tentering gear.

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

The Bremer brothers, millwrights

REXW-IMG-04-038
Item
1958

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Kent County Council took over the mill in 1958 and employed Christiaan Bremer's team of millwrights from Adorp in the Netherlands to restore the mill and get the sweeps turning again.

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