- CUTT-02477
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Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'The Daily Telegraph'[?] about the appeal for funds to stop Bocking post mill from being pulled down.
[Came from Michael Dunn Collection]
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'The Daily Telegraph'[?] about the appeal for funds to stop Bocking post mill from being pulled down.
[Came from Michael Dunn Collection]
"Windmill days in York recalled"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Report in the 'Yorkshire Evening Press' of a lecture on "The English Windmill", given last night by Rex Wailes to help raise funds for the restoration of Holgate Mill, York.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Illustrated piece in the 'Hastings & St. Leonards Observer' showing the Mayor, Alderman C. Barfoot, inspecting the interior of Silverhill Mill with Mr Rex Wailes of the S.P.A.B. to assess how realistic its restoration could be.
Wind wheel, Wind Wheel, Punnett's Town
Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection
Photograph showing the wind wheel of the Wind Wheel windmill at Punnetts Town in East Sussex. Presumably originally photographed by Lancaster Burne, this photograph was reproduced by Martin T. Mason and held by Rex Wailes before residing in the Kenneth G. Farries Collection.
Farries, Kenneth G, author
"Weeton's Old Windmill - Preservation Plea to Public"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Northern Daily Telegraph". A plea for public support to preserve the old windmill at Weeton has been made to the Lancashire branch of the Ancient Monuments Society. Rex Wailes gave a talk about the need to preserve the old windmills of the Fylde area. He discusssed the history and development of windmills since their introduction following the Crusades.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "West Lancashire Evening Gazette". The Weeton windmill was built in 1812 and the present owner, Lord Derby has promised to help the Society of Ancient Monuments preserve it for the future. Mr Wailes described the mill as a 'fine example of a tower mill and the work of the early millwrights.
"Weeton Mill - Effort to Restore and Preserve"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Blackpool Times". The Ancient Monuments Society come to the rescue by taking an interest in preserving the old mills of the Fylde. An authority on mills said "it seemed a pity that not one windmill was to be seen at work in the Fylde". Lancashire had a chance to see at least one windmill remained.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Note in the Gloucester 'Citizen' on Rex Wailes' estimate that, if the present rate at which windmills are being shut down, none will be left at work in fifteen years.
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
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Rex Wailes and Peter Powell in discussion.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
"Wailes against wall of base of Cranbrook mill"
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
7/3
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent, Rex Wailes
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Michael Dunn Collection
Rex Wailes, his daughter and party of Dutch millwrights (+ wives) who had replaced the sweeps with a new set. The people identified by Mildred Cookson are:- Chris Bremer (Dutch) to left of doorway; Anthea Wailes kneeling with white handbag; Rex sitting in doorway wearing beret; Enid Wailes, Rex's wife, on extreme right.
Dunn, Michael (1916-1993)
"To Save Fylde Landmark - Weeton's Old Windmill"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from "Northern Daily Telegraph". The article makes a plea for the preservation of Weeton Windmill. The Lancashire branch of the Ancient Monuments Society expressed support for preservation. Notable figures were present at the meeting included Mr Allen Clark, James Crompton, Rex Wailes, Mr. J Swarbrick.
"Three windmills selected for preservation"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Piece in the 'West Sussex Gazette' reporting the discussions by West Sussex County Council about which of their county's windmills should be picked for preservation. They were opposed. however, to preserving the combined wind-and-water mill at West Ashling since it was still lived in by the farmer who owned it.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'The Evening Star' about the efforts of the Suffolk Preservation Society, whose President is Lord Ullswater, to sustain the windmills spread around the county as urged by Mr Rex Wailes at a public meeting recently in Ipswich.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Article in 'The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder' by Reece Winstone A.R.P.S., F.R.S.A. on the theme of the variety of windmills and the arrival of the new wind turbine being put up at St.Albans that should generate 100 kW in a 30 mile per hou. wind.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
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.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
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.
Slides of Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey mills
Part of Jon Sass Collection
Slides of various mills around Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey, and elsewhere.
Travis, Edward, millwright
"Rotary Clubs Asked to Help in Preserving Billingford Mill"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
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.