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Post mill, Syleham

Post mill, Syleham

Note on reverse reads "A typical Suffolk post mill. It was very severely damaged in a freak storm in 1946 just after its new arm had put it into first class working order. It now works with two sails only but the owner hopes to be able to replace the other two."

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

Report - Holton Post Mill

A 4-page report for Suffolk County Council on Holton Post Mill examining the mill's: sails; fan, framing and carriage; substructure and buck. The report concludes that public access should be prohibited pending the recommended programme of repair works due to the unsatisfactory condition of certain aspects of the structure. An estimate of £8,600 is given for the repair work (including the replacement of two stocks).

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

"A historic picture"

"A historic picture"

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

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

Notebooks on Lincolnshire windmills

Two notebooks, labelled "Part I" and "Part II", containing detailed observations of Lincolnshire windmills. The second notebook additionally contains observations on some Cambridgeshire and Suffolk windmills. The dates of the mill visits correspond with the negatives in sub-series MEYE-NEG-04, MEYE-NEG-10, and MEYE-NEG-14.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

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

Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.

Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.

Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.

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

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