Archive Catalogue

Yard, car and van at watermill, Wannock

HESS-2264
Item
16 July 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2264.

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Working waterwheel detail, Lower Mill, Polegate

HESS-2266
Item
16 July 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2266. "The iron overshot here measures 14 feet by 6 and is on a round oak shaft. It is in good condition and is still used." He also named it 'Lower Mill', which Stidder and Smith (vol.1 p.137) places in Polegate !!

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wood's Mill, Small Dole, seen from NW

HESS-2143
Item
24 May 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2143.

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wood's Mill, Small Dole

HESS-2004
Item
17 June 1936

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2004. "It was built in 1712 and enlarged 1820. Machinery now cleared out, but wheel is used for generating."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wooden shaft in ground, watermill, Bosham

HESS-2042
Item
12 March 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2042.

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Windshaft, Blackboys Mill, Framfield

HESS-1101449
Item
No date

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

Short's Register shows Simmons took four pictures at Blackboys but only #1032, taken 10/3/35 of the "stocks" could be this one.

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Windshaft details, Common Mill, Sullington

HESS-1209
Item
22 May 1938

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wheel, watermill, Shermanbury

HESS-2124
Item
30 April 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2124. "Shermanbury Mill. Two wheels at Shermanbury. This breast wheel is on east side, is 13 feet diameter and 10ft 8ins wide."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wheel wreckage, Manor Mill, Poynings

HESS-2134
Item
17 May 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2134. "All that remains of a very interesting wheel."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wheel swathed in shrubbery, watermill, High Hurstwood

HESS-2113
Item
23 April 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2113. "The overshot wheel inscribed "S Medhurst and Son, September 1867"."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wheel ready to work, Wood's Mill, Small Dole

HESS-2109
Item
23 April 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2109. "Wood's Mill, Henfield. The overshot wheel by Neal and Cooper, Henfield, 1854."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wheel lying in long grass, Barcombe Mills, Barcombe

HESS-2268
Item
16 July 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2268. "Mills are now destroyed, but some of the stones remain. This one is 7 feet in diameter and 15 inches thick."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Waterwheel, watermill, Lurgashall

HESS-2105
Item
16 April 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2105. "Lurgashall Mill. Lurgashall Mill had two overshots, one behind the other. One remains and is probably the work of R Chorley, of Midhurst."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Waterwheel, watermill, Bodiam

HESS-2054
Item
9 April 1939

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #2054. "The small mill at Bodiam which Edward Collins worked for over fifty years is now demolished. Only the wheel and the mill house remain."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher