Index card for Black Mill, Barham
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Index card with information of Harry Meyer's visit to Black Mill, Barham, corresponding with the negatives and photographs.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
The Daily Telegraph
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Reference to the sale of the mill.
The Daily Telegraph
Index card for Bekesbourne Mill, Ash
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Index card with information of Harry Meyer's visit to Bekesbourne Mill, Ash, corresponding with the negatives and photographs.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Index card for Willesborough smock mill
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Index card with information of Harry Meyer's visit to Willesborough smock mill, corresponding with the negatives and photographs.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Photograph relates to negative no. 3475 in sub-series MEYE-NEG-09.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Legal papers relating to the sale of Herne Bay windmill.
An array of legal correspondence, papers, drafts and accounts associated with the parties to the sale of the windmill at Herne Bay in July 1879. The papers date between 13 July 1878 to 16 October 1880 and relate to: correspondence regarding the payment of succession duty on the deaths of Henry Stanley and James Alexander; a dispute as to responsibility for paying for the previous miller's fixtures (the miller, Thomas Wootton having been given notice to quit upon the sale of the windmill); ascertaining details as to the birth and death dates/ burial locations of various members of the Alexander family and other individuals previously having an interest in the mill (such as Edward Charles and Henry Stanley); queries regarding progress on the administration of James Alexander's estate. Some of the correspondence from the Alexander family is written on black-edged mourning paper.
Draft certificates concerning Eliza Stanley's capacity to dispose of her estate at Herne Bay.
A draft married woman's Commissioner's Certificate and accompanying draft Commissioner's Affidavit referencing a proposed disposition of Eliza Stanley's (née Charles) interest in property at Herne Bay.
Will of Edward Charles relating to a windmill at Herne Bay
1 page of paper measuring 44 cm x 33 cm and folded in two comprising a copy of the will of Edward Charles in which he makes various bequests to his children, Charles, Edmund and Eliza. His bequest to his daughter of the "mill bake house lodge stable and premises situate in the Parish of Herne" is made to her "for her sole and separate use free from marital control". Earlier references in the will are to bequests being made to Eliza "for her own sole & separate use and benefit absolutely without being in any manner subject to the debts engagements or control of any husband with whom she may happen to intermarry".
Agreement for the sale of Herne Bay windmill.
One piece of paper measuring approximately 33 cm x 41 cm, folded in two, and recording the agreement between the eight Alexander brothers (Joseph and James, both farmers of Lower Garrington, Littlebourne acting as agents for the others) to sell the windmill at Herne Bay to Joseph William Horne "otherwise William Collard," licensed victualler of Richmond Inn, Herne Bay. The property sold comprises, "all that windmill and all that messuage or tenement and bakehouse with the outbuildings thereunto belonging and the land adjoining thereto situate lying and being at Herne Bay..... late in the occupation of Alfred Taylor and now Thomas Wootton Together with all the machinery tackle fixtures fittings and gear in and about the said windmill....". The agreement provides for the vendors who inherited the property from their late father, James Alexander, as "coheirs in gavelkind", to provide an abstract of title tracing ownership back to Edward Charles of Reculver.
Part of Tony Yoward Collection
Unknown photographer
Part of Shirley Kirsopp Collection
Ivy Cottage, Iwade.
Model maker
Kirsopp, Shirley
Part of Shirley Kirsopp Collection
Model maker.
Ivy Cottage, Iwade
Kirsopp, Shirley
Helen Wilson reminisences of the working mill pre 1958
Wilson, Helen M (1913 -1998), nee West
A Biography of Caleb Oyler Russell
Reference to Willesborough Watermill probably relates to Sevington Mill, Ashford. Reference to Shorncliffe Watermill probably relates to Seabrook Mill, Cheriton.
Tremenheere, Wynn (1923-2015), chairman of Cranbrook Windmill Association
Conveyance of land adjacent to Hockeredge Mill, Kent
One sheet of vellum measuring approximately 56 cm x 33 cm comprising a conveyance by Thomas Wylford to Robert Hovynden, clothier, of twelve acres of land by Hockeredge Mill, Cranbrook.
Collection of documents relating to a windmill at Brook Lane, Herne Bay
Collection of documents including correspondence relating to the tenancy of Brook Lane smock mill at Herne Bay, Kent, dating from between 1708 and 1879.