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Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925
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A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
T.B. Paisley's 'Windmill Notes'
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A 'spring folio', binding together loose pages comprising 'Windmill Notes, compiled from various sources by T.B. Paisley'. The folio is divided into the following sections: 'English Windmills. Arranged by Counties' and 'Foreign Windmills' (USA and France). The folio covers the counties listed at 'Place access points below' with brief details of selected post, tower and smock mills there and the date visited.
Paisley, Thomas Brownlee (1916-1980)
Manuscript and notes for 'The Windmills of Suffolk'
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3 identical 'Kirby Series' Reporters Books, each 160 pages, containing Wailes' research and manuscript for 'The Windmills of Suffolk'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Research notebook on various mills, 1932
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A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Various notes should be transcribed. Gt Hazely, Ramsey, Ivinghoe" and comprising research notes, drawings and measurements from visits to the identifiable mills listed at "Place access points" below. Ivinghoe is more commonly known as 'Pitstone Windmill', Wailes noting a date of 1627 carved in part of the interior.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk
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A Reporters' Notebook containing:
Northants: notes taken from 'Northants Notes & Queries, New Series, Vol.4, 1912-1920' relating to: a 1609 grant by James 1 of a post mill at Kettering; the history of an unindexed tower mill (located on the site of a former post mill on Rockingham Road, Kettering) which was demolished in 1893; 18th c. maps of Kettering showing the location of various mills and a 19th c. print showing a post mill at Peterborough; also notes about the post mill at Seaton, Rutland which was demolished in 1917 as well as the nearby watermill, Henry Royce being said to have worked at both mills as a boy.
Suffolk: research notes relating to Suffolk windmills including construction dates, operational status in 1926,1939 and 1955 and including the notable features listed in 'Subject access points' below.
Windmill restoration: eight pages of draft narrative rehearsing the demise of wind and watermills since the late 19th c. and extolling the efforts of John Russell to restore and preserve Union Mill, Cranbrook. The narrative rehearses the preservation efforts made by a number of local authorities (counties listed in 'Place access points' below) arguing that it should be essential for such work to be their responsibility.
Windmills still in operation: notes running from back-to-front in the notebook listing, 'How many still in use', which are 'Workable' and 'When used and why'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
'The Windmills of Suffolk, Part II, Tower Mills' - manuscript
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90 pages of manuscript for a paper entitled, 'The Windmills of Suffolk, Part II, Tower mills' which begins, 'The tower mills of Suffolk, like the post mills, suffered heavily between the years 1926 & 1939'.
Wailes notes that whilst smock and tower mill are listed separately at the end of the paper for the purpose of comparing their operational status in 1926 and again in 1937-1939, in the remainder of the paper, 'both smock and tower mills will be dealt with as one type'. The paper then tracks the research noted in REXW-NOT-039-001.
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Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Pocket notebook - Suffolk windmills -1930 or later
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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
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Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
For date see ASHL-06-020.
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Ruffle's Mill, Haverhill, Suffolk
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Identified by Mildred Cookson, "Haverhill".
Unknown photographer
Detailed notes on mills in the UK and abroad
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Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Hennell, Thomas (1903-1945), artist
Tower mill, Buxhall, Suffolk, England
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The written message behind the photograph reads, '' Buxhall, Suffolk.''
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Manuscript of "Suffolk Windmills" parts 1 and two published in the Necomen Society Transactions vols 22 and 23.
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Lists of wind and water mills; Report on Hunworth Mill per Dr. James Elliott; Report on the Norfolk Survey of mills, 1940; John Russell's recollections on Stalham Mill; Notes on Cooke's Mill, Stalham per G. Brislaw; notes on Billingford tower mill per Mr. S. Daines, miller; notes on West Marsh Mill, West Somerton and Post mill, Thornham Magna, 1959.
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negative photograph of another photograph
Pakenham Windmill, Pakenham, Suffolk, England
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The written message behind the photograph reads, '' Pakenham Windmill, Suffolk, April '64. ''
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Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Shows sails being fixed.
Farrow, Frank
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Part of the Rex Wailes collection.