- CUTT-03494
- Item
- 8 January 1943
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Two-part article by Rex Wailes in the magazine 'Engineering' about the current windmills in Suffolk.
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Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Two-part article by Rex Wailes in the magazine 'Engineering' about the current windmills in Suffolk.
Rex Wailes at Stansted Windmill in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex
Part of Donald W Muggeridge Collection
Muggeridge, Donald William (1918-2015), photographer
Press cuttings relating to the life of Rex Wailes
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
George Wailes & Co business card
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
George Wailes and Co Ltd
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Note in the Gloucester 'Citizen' on Rex Wailes' estimate that, if the present rate at which windmills are being shut down, none will be left at work in fifteen years.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Note in the 'English Digest', quoting from the 'New English Weekly', on Rex Wailes' survey of the tide-mills around the coasts of England, one of which has worked continuously since AD 1170.
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
See J. Kenneth Major, 'Rex Wailes: An appreciation of his work', (SPAB) p.5.
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
"Energy in ebb and flow of tides"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Article in the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' summarising a paper in 'Engineering' by Rex Wailes on "Tide Mills in Great Britain", in which he claims that they can be traced back as early as AD1170.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from the 'Evening Star' about Mr Rex Wailes, the technical adviser to S.P.A.B. who specialises in windmills - at present - and has seen nearly fifty mills given attention in the past ten years.
Enid Wailes, Rex Wailes, Oswald Cordier and Monnette
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse reads "Le meunier du M'in de St Maxent Oswald Cordier - Rex Wailes, sa femme et Monnette. 4.7.38. No 37 Film 41."
Unknown photographer
"Meeting of the Suffolk Preservation Society"
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Cutting from the 'Bury Free Press' reporting the latest meeting of the S.P.S., at which 32 items were on the agenda. Progress on a survey of Suffolk's mills was noted, along with a report by Mr Rex Wailes on his visits to 72 of them in West Suffolk. Tree felling at Woolpit was deprecated, and the rebuilding of Brandon Bridge should only be done once the plans had been approved by the Fine Arts Committee.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'The Evening Star' about the efforts of the Suffolk Preservation Society, whose President is Lord Ullswater, to sustain the windmills spread around the county as urged by Mr Rex Wailes at a public meeting recently in Ipswich.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Piece in the 'Huddersfield Examiner' about how Rex Wailes is trying to draw attention, in his capacity as technical adviser to the Windmill Committee of S.P.A.B., to the value of windmills for teaching young engineers.
"Rex Wailes' talk to the Hampshire House Photographic Society"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Note in the 'West London Observer' about Rex Wailes' talk on the history of windmills, with his comprehensive series of slides.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from the 'Evening News' with snippets about the millers' customs about parking sails in the evening ("Miller's Pride"); Mr J.A.Davidson's model collection; his brother T. Gerrard Davidson the surveyor to S.P.A.B.; and London's only millwright, Mr Rex Wailes.
Gibraltar Mill, Great Bardfield
Part of Rex Wailes Collection