Archive Catalogue

Tadworth, Surrey

KGFC-GPN-A-018
Item
No date

Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection

Exterior view of post mill, Tadworth, Surrey

Farries, Kenneth G, author

"Death-watch in the Windmill"

CUTT-03025
Item
27 February 1959

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo and note in the 'Wimbledon Borough News' that death-watch beetle has been found in the main stock of the windmill and so the sails have had to be taken off until the problem is solved.

Castle Hill Mill, Newent

FWGC-1106062
Item
20th century

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Electricity generating mill erected by E Lancaster Burne.

Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher

Castle Hill Mill, Newent

FWGC-1106061
Item
20th century

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Electricity generating mill erected by E Lancaster Burne.

Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher

Barford Upper Mill

TYC-0503
Item
17 June 1996

Part of Tony Yoward Collection

Hampshire Mills Group

Research notebook, 1933 to 1935

REXW-NOT-004
Item
8 November 1933 to 6 April 1935

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Shiremark, Aythorpe Roding, Seaton Ross" containing 8 pages of an undated draft narrative about post mills and paltrok mills. The notebook also contains research notes, drawings and measurements from visits to the following mills: Shiremark Mill, Capel on 12 November 1933 (9 pages); Aythorpe Roding on 1 October 1934 (4 pages); Preston Mill, Seaton Ross on 6 April 1935 (3 pages). Lastly, a long list of 81 windmills, each with what seem to be a key feature noted against them (e.g. "Billericay - collapsed", "Bozeat - winch on tailpole"). Interspersed are notes about two, seemingly unrelated businesses: the Belden Manufacturing Co., Chicago and E.M. Denny & Co, a soft cheese processing plant.

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

"Brixton Windmill Cap"

WALL-01-11
Item
11 - 24 February 1985

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

"Plan of curb and cap frame" carbon copy;
"Weatherbeam strengthening" drawing;
"Tower Mill, Blenheim Gardens, Lambeth" carbon copy;
"Section X-X & Y-Y" edited carbon copy

"Reopening of Brixton Windmill

CUTT-01803
Item
9 May 1969

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in 'The West London & Fulham Gazette' about the reopening of the tower mill after restoration by L. C. C.

"Working on sails"

CUTT-01802
Item
4 September 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'South London Press' about the restoration work nearing completion on the Brixton windmill.

"Brixton's Windmill"

CUTT-01804
Item
20 June 1964

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Letter to 'South London Press' from a Mrs Bell of Bournemouth about searches by a Mr Saunderson for the windmill that once stood in Brixton.

"MUST A LONDON WINDMILL MAKE WAY FOR FLATS?"

CUTT-01806
Item
24 July 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from 'Evening Standard' about proposals to knock down the windmill in Blenheim Gardens in Brixton and build a block of flats.

"The Brixton Windmill"

CUTT-01807
Item
12 August 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph and Morning Post' about the plans to replace the old windmill in Blenheim Gardens, Brixton with a block of flats.

"The windmill is NOT going"

CUTT-01808
Item
13 August 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from the 'Balham News' that the old windmill, dating from 1816, had been scheduled as an Ancient Monument in 1951 and would be restored.

"Lambeth cannot afford the windmill"

CUTT-01809
Item
28 September 1954

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Report in the 'South London Press' that Lambeth Council decided that the site of the old windmill in Blenheim Gardens would be too costly to acquire as an open space and that the L. C. C. would have to take the project on.