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Notebook - 1967 to 1968

A Reporters Notebook labelled 'Bath Nov 1967, Group 9 Reading Feb 1968, Kent & Staffs 1968', the contents being itemised on the front and back covers.
The 'Bath' section of the notebook begins with 43 pages of notes which appear to have been taken at a conference on industrial archaeology and possible means of preserving its heritage, including discussion of open-air museums. Notes are taken from talks by: Angus Buchanan - 'The Status of Industrial Archaeology; 'The Techniques of Industrial Archaeology, Part I and II' - Michael Rix and Frank Atkinson, respectively; and a paper given by Kenneth Hudson, giving particular reference to the approach adopted by museums in Scandinavia.
The 'Reading' section is marked 'Group 9, CBA' and features notes on lectures given at a further symposium on: the farm estate at Buscott Park (John Grayson) - at one time considered to be the most industrialised in the country; the Bucklebury Foundry ([Mc]Combe); and S. & E. Collier's gravel and brick-works [in Reading] (Ken Major).
The remainder of the notebook records visits to various industrial buildings and works in Kent (including a waterworks, two breweries and a wheelwrights) and numerous sites in Staffordshire, including several concerned with the china and earthenware manufacturing industry and surrounding canal network. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. Unindexed watermills were visited at: Park Mill, High Offley, Eccleshall; Wetley Rocks; and Cookshill, Caverswall, as was an unidentified mill called Logwood [Logwodd] Mill about which, Wailes notes, a film was made by the BBC .

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

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Tea-towel advertising Stone's Whole Wheat, R Stone, Pangbourne and Tidmarsh Mills. Two Half Quartern Loaf bread tokens, Frome Co-op Society Ltd. Pin case[?], The British OIl & Cake Mills Ltd, Foster Brothers, Gloucester. McDougalls paperweight. Two textile mill bobbins, Wilding Bros Ltd and A Stott & Sons Ltd.

'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

Reading, Berks

Abbey Mill shortly before demolition

Berkshire Archaeology Journal Volume 66 1971-2
Excavations at Reading Abbey
by C.F. Slade
pp.65-116
Plate 12

Dr Cecil F. Slade

Hungerford, Berks

Another newspaper cutting (from the same paper) has been added to the back and says:
"Denford Mill, near Hungerford, Berkshire, though modernised, still
retains its charm and makes an effective picture under a cloud-
swept sky. The old water wheel has been replaced by more
up-to-date power, but the change is not outwardly visible."
Daily Sketch 26.07.1946

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