- MCFC-GPN-B-015
- Item
- 1936
Unknown photographer
Unknown photographer
Unknown photographer
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
Unknown photographer
Unknown photographer
"The Silence of a Caribbean mill"
One-page, creative narrative describing the sounds of an imagined day of work at a Caribbean sugar mill. This piece was written for the Mills Archive's "Mill Memories" referenced below.
Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright
Part of E M Gardner Collection
Part of E M Gardner Collection
View from bottom of hill, Nixey's Mill, Brill
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
SPAB compliments card
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse reads "A typical Suffolk post mill. It was very severely damaged in a freak storm in 1946 just after its new arm had put it into first class working order. It now works with two sails only but the owner hopes to be able to replace the other two."
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Close-up of model showing interior, Sprowston Mill, Sprowston Heath
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Mr H. O Clark's model of Sprowston post mill near Norwich - model now in Science museum.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Rex measuring up the head wheel, Tower mill, Norton Subcourse
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Rex Wailes takes measurements from the grounded headwheel and windshaft of a drainage mill. Photographed marked 'Norton Staithe' on reverse.
Unknown photographer