Survey of watermills in Gloucestershire and other counties with related photographs and notes. Files of SPAB watermill survey forms filled out by G M Davies were included as GMDC-02 and GMDC-04, but are now catalogued as part of the SPAB watermill survey (SPAB-WAS).
Images and documents on windmills and watermills in various regions of the UK, Europe and the USA. Includes material on the sugar mills of Barbados. Some parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries; the remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Display boards from the Molinological Conference ('Molicon'), 1979. Copies of drawings of Wrawby post mill by C T G B, 1968. Three films:UK windmills inc Paxton and Bourne, 1968; Denmark windmills, May 1974; Blakedown Forge, Churchill, Worcestershire, July 1971.
Images and cuttings, mainly of windmills with some material on watermills, covering most UK counties. Parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries. The remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Letters from Haines to Titley and correspondence between Titley and Wailes; on Chesterton Mill, other windmills and related subjects. Also notebook with notes, measurements and sketches re. Sibsey, Alford, Heckington, Chesterton and Burton Dassett mills.
Notebooks, correspondence, published and unpublished work, photographs, postcards and photocopies from publications; relating to wind and water mills from the UK and around the world.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
The collection of Covenant deeds and Abstracts of Title relating to the new Corn Mill of East Ryppe, Lydd shed light on the ever changing terms and conditions of the status and ownership of the mill for the period between 1801 and 1905.