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"A historic picture"

Lakenheath Old Lode by the Little Ouse River showing wind, steam and oil pumps standing together.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925

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'

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)

Drinkstone smock mill survey

File of 4 annotated drawings with dimensions and 27 photographs of the structure and gearing of the smock mill, as it appeared in the late 1970's.

Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller

Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk

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

Research notebook, 1925, 1938 and 1962

A partially-filled technical notebook featuring notes, drawings and measurements for 'Cranbrook Mill' with a focus on the 'cannister head', striking gear, windshaft, weatherboarding, curb and fan. The drawings include a cross-section showing the 'framing of one side of tower - 4th floor'. There are also undated notes on 'Stanstead Mill' with notes [possibly from the miller] on how to dress stones.
Notes from September 1938 detail a visit to 'Stanton Mill' as well as very detailed notes taken following a visit to Mr John Smith at 'Holton Mill'. These notes appear to be taken from Mr Smith's recollections of numerous mills, millers and millwrights in the area, (e.g. Yoxford, Tunstall, Theberton, Snape) as well as further afield (e.g. Edenbridge, Outwood and Patcham).
A final single page of notes related to a visit to 'Polegate' on 20 March 1962.

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

'The Windmills of Suffolk, Part II, Tower Mills' - manuscript

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.

'Notes Watermills'

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

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 August 1931 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Kent" with brief notes on, and/or references to, the mills listed at "Place access points" below. The notebook is only partially complete.

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

Photographs

Thingwall, Crowfield, Gwendarr Mill, Overy Mill, Tidworth, Shabden Park, Earls Colne, Brickfield Pump, Caudwell's Mill, Lustleigh, Dullelog.

Album XXI

Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Album XVIII

Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Surrey, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Essex. Includes SPAB Mill Section visit to Herringfleet Mill

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

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