Report in the 'Eastern Daily Press' of an address by Rex Wailes to Dereham Rotary Club about the critical state of Norfolk's mills quoting Billingford Mill as an instance.
A collection of photographs of drawings that have been scanned. Also includes a catalogue of Whitmore and Binyon drawings by Peter Dolman, giving notes and information for each specific photographed drawing. Individual catalogue entries for the scanned photographs can be found under the 'Large Mill Drawings Collections' section. Negatives of the scanned photographs are also included at the back of the album.
Scrapbook of postcards and photographs. Includes 12 Liebig cards, postcards of UK and foreign mills, photographs of mills in Bedfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, and USA. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 53.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Historical notes and restoration of windmill, Description of external features ( eg. Sails and fantail), ground floor, meal and stone floors, dirt and cap floors with Sectional diagram of mechanisms.
A notebook compiled by Peter Dolman from an unspecified date, mainly dealing with notes about Suffolk Millers, but including other content as well. Subjects within include: Various notes about individual mills; Anglesey Windmills; Notes for Norfolk photos; Oldham's Collection; Cambridgeshire Rex Wailes Collection; Kelly's Directory from 1885 and a list of Suffolk Millers.
Piece in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' on how the pioneering steps taken in East Suffolk to preserve some of their windmills is being followed by West Sussex and Bucks County Councils.
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.
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.
Postcard with a Christmas message from Rex Wailes on the reverse. "All good wishes for Christmas & the New Year from Rex Wailes". This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.35.
Piece in 'The Lincoln & Stamford Mercury' about a lecture by Rex Wailes at the Town Hall in which he asked his audience to make a drawing of a windmill before it is to late and the mills have all gone.
A 10-page narrative account of the Morgan Lewis sugar mill restoration project including principal areas of work carried out at each stage, from the initial survey in January 1994 up until 1999. Nicholl's ascribes the awakening of his interest in Caribbean sugar mills to a Newcomen Society paper written by Rex Wailes on, "Windmills and steam power in Barbados". Other influences include "A Windmill in Barbados", a film shot in the 1920s at the Corbin family's Mount Pleasant mill (Barbados). The important roles of the Barbados National Trust (and especially Penelope Hynam Roach and Richard Goddard) and Nicholl's hosts, the Choate family, are also acknowledged. Adjacent topics include: the history of milling on the island and its importance to the Barbadian economy; the end of steam-powered sugar milling on the island; the mill's listing on the World Monuments list 1996; the various local trades used in the project (including the recommissioning of an old lime kiln to supply lime mortar) as well as the rotating team of craftsmen from the Chiltern Partnership in attendance; consultation on additional restoration projects including at Six Men's plantation mill (St Peter's); a visit to view the Boiling House at the River Antoine watermill (Grenada) and another to the Essequibo River (Guyana) for timber-sourcing; meetings with the Barbadian Ministry of Education for the Amy Nicholls Mill Wall recording project; a list of 42 mill remains/mill walls visited by Nicholls for research purposes.
