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Notebooks on Lincolnshire windmills

Two notebooks, labelled "Part I" and "Part II", containing detailed observations of Lincolnshire windmills. The second notebook additionally contains observations on some Cambridgeshire and Suffolk windmills. The dates of the mill visits correspond with the negatives in sub-series MEYE-NEG-04, MEYE-NEG-10, and MEYE-NEG-14.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Report - Six Mile Bottom Post Mill

A co-authored Millwrights International Limited report for East Cambridgeshire County Council on Six Mile Bottom Post Mill following an inspection and survey in July 1980. A detailed assessment of the condition of the mill is given together with repair proposals and an estimated budget for the work of £14,000 - £16,000. Nicholls acknowledges background information provided by Rex Wailes and Henry Wozniak. Details of the mill's history are give, referencing its current owner (Delamere Estate) and its Grade II listing in Spring 1980 and hence, East Cambridgeshire County Council's role in ensuring its protection, Nicholls describing its general appearance as "lost, forlorn and forgotten; a real disgrace to a structure so full of historical detail and constructional interest. In this respect she is unique". Reference is made to previous discussions with Mills International Limited about moving the whole structure to a rural life museum as a last resort

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Post mill, Madingley

Photograph from a box of Hallam Ashley prints labelled 'Assorted UK windmill photos - not Norfolk'. Shows the original mill at Madingley which collapsed in 1909.

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925

A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.

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

T.B. Paisley's 'Windmill Notes'

A 'spring folio', binding together loose pages comprising 'Windmill Notes, compiled from various sources by T.B. Paisley'. The folio is divided into the following sections: 'English Windmills. Arranged by Counties' and 'Foreign Windmills' (USA and France). The folio covers the counties listed at 'Place access points below' with brief details of selected post, tower and smock mills there and the date visited.

Paisley, Thomas Brownlee (1916-1980)

"Cattell's smock mill Willingham, Cambs Sept 1960"

Views of Cattell's Mill, Willingham, with two sails, taken in August and September 1960 by Stephen, accompanied by Chris Wilson and Laurence Turner. A list identifying each photograph can be found in the box.

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

Drawings of Soham Mere Mill

File containing a notebook and loose papers with drawings and plans of the drainage mill at Soham Mere. The notebook is labelled, 'Soham Mere 1947. R.C. Durdin's sketches made for proposed model for Science Museum. Order never placed'. The notebook also contains Wailes' own drawings for Soham Mere Mill dated 2[3] May 1947. The detailed architectural drawing of the mill is labelled 'Draining Mill. Soham Mere, Cambs' and marked 'F.D. Fyson'.

'Notes Watermills'

Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.

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

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