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Pocket notebook - Suffolk windmills -1930 or later

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1930 measuring 7.5 cm x 10 cm, most of the pages being blank, but containing a list of the Suffolk mills itemised at 'Place access points' below, with brief descriptions for each one. These include details of the current mill owner (where applicable) and their condition (or date of demolition, if applicable).

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

Pocket notebook - 1931 or later

A repurposed pocket diary for November 1931 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Hunts, Cambs, Suffolk" with brief notes on, and/or references to, the mills listed at "Place access points" below. The notes also mention an unidentified, 17th century smock mill at 'Ickleton, Suffolk' which had a thatched roof and had been pulled down at the end of the 19th century.

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

Pocket notebook - 1931 or later

A repurposed pocket diary for June 1931 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Cambs, Sh[aw], Kent, Sheffield" with brief notes on various topics including the mills listed at "Place access points" below. The notebook is only partially complete.

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

Pocket notebook - 1930 or later

A repurposed pocket diary for November 1930 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Cambs" with brief notes on various matters including the mills listed at "Place access points" below.

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

Pocket notebook - Tollerton Tower Mill and Woad Mills

A small pocket notebook (measuring 7.5 cm by 11 cm) containing brief notes on various milling and personal matters including the woad mills listed at "Place access point below" as well as at Tydd St Mary, Newton and Weston. Detailed notes and drawings are made on Tollerton Mill.

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

Research notebook for various mills, 1928 to 1929

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Bledlow Ridge, Summe Holiday June 1928, 1929 Easter in Anglesey" comprising: 5 pages of Rex Wailes' research notes, drawings and measurements from a visit to Bledlow Ridge Mill; 24 page narrative describing Rex Wailes' summer holiday (2 June to 13 June 1928) in which he toured a variety of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire windmills, meeting several millers, mill owners and old friends en route (and recording an open invitation from a Swedish vice-consul for Wailes to visit Sweden to examine its old mills); 27 page narrative describing Rex Wailes' tour of Anglesey over the Easter bank holiday (28 March to 1 April 1929) in which he inspected both wind and watermills, using paperwork forwarded to him by his father, to survey the number of derelict mills (including notes on a mill at Tre-Arddur Bay which he records as the last mill worked by wind on Anglesey).

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

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