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"With the Windmillwrights in Fen and Marsh"

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Text written some time between 1931 and 1934; photos 1929-1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Account with photographs of millwrights in Cambridgeshire.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Popham’s Eau with Big Betty in the distance. View from Nordelph, August 1929"

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August 1929

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

"A sail is now pulled up and bolted to the back. The first bolt is being fixed"

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October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Soham. Starting to pull the Back round"

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October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Soham. Second stage more advanced. The haulers are partly hidden by the ‘drug’"

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October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Raising the sail back.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

Adventurer's Fen

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No date

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Handing the sail into position"

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October 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

The Hunts fitting a new sail.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"The fenland’s story famed. View from Mere Mill with Soham church visible 2 miles away"

REXW-MIL-04-07-11
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September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"View from wind-shaft of Mere Mill looking towards Ely Cathedral. The sail shown has no 'gore'"

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September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

'Gore' is used to describe an extra piece held between the whip and the stock.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Fixing the bolts"

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September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Tom Hunt fixing the bolts to secure the new sail.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"We arrived at Mere Mill'"

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September 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

The Hunts arriving at Mere Mill with a new sail.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Merry work. The back has just touched the ground'"

REXW-MIL-04-07-07
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November 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

The miller with family and friends pulling the 'anti-bump' rope to keep the sail back from bumping against the mill as it is lowered.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Riding the 'magic sail'"

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November 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Fixing the chain. View from the lower end of the sail"

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November 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Tom and Jack fastening a chain to the poll hub.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Burwell. A blend of Saxon, Norman – the church tower – and the ancient craft of the millwright. Second stage of hauling"

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1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"At Burwell. First stage of hauling"

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1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Tom Hunt aloft"

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November 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Tom Hunt standing on the sails after disconnecting and removing the striking rod.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"The curve of the sail. Thompson in his yard "

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1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

"Messrs. Hunt Brothers."

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1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Thomas and Fred Hunt.

Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)

Bassingbourne Mills, Cambridgeshire

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c 1900

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Shows three mills, two tower mills and one post mill with a chimney in the background.

Latchmore, Thomas Bennell (1832-1908), photographer

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