Nicholl's foolscap notebook containing:
(1) 56 double-sided pages of dated notes, drawings, and measurements of the wind and watermills listed at "Place access points below".
(2) A newspaper clipping from the mid 1980s reporting on Millwrights International Limited's work on the restoration and removal of Chiseldon tower mill to Windmill Hill Business Centre, Swindon.
(3) A photocopied newspaper clipping from [the Telegraph] reporting on the restoration of Mapledurham Watermill, also referencing Nicholl's concern about the future of milling machinery at Rhydlydan Watermill, Wales.
(3) Further notes, contacts, addresses and potential suppliers of materials are listed on the last 6 pages of the notebook.

Purchase of goodwill and premises, J Stanbury & Son (Victoria Mills, Barnstaple) to Joseph Rank Ltd.

A scrapbook-style album containing photographs, newspaper cuttings and ephemera on mills in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Durham, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, and Guernsey and Sark.

Deed of Covenant between Upexe House Ltd (formerly E J Coombe Ltd) and the Purchase Finance Company Ltd. Includes statutory declaration by John Edward Hamlin, managing director of E J Coombe (Thorverton) Ltd, 'which has been formed to take over the business of Upexe House Ltd (formerly known as E J Coombe Ltd)'

Covenant for repayment of debt by Philip Trant & Sons Ltd of Kingsbridge to the Purchase Finance Company Ltd.

Agreement for sale of basic datum by E J Coombe Ltd to the Purchase Finance Company Ltd.

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'.

3 pages of A4 paper, folded around 16 pages of notes taken from two smaller notebooks. Notes taken on mills in Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Wales and Yorkshire, with more detailed notes on a windmill at 'Brill, Bucks' which is also labelled 'Wilford's mill'.

Agreement for purchase of Goodwill and Deed of Covenant relating to King's Mills Cullompton: Marks & Son to E J Coombe Ltd (owners of mills at Thorverton). Purchase Finance Company Ltd acting as third party. Enclosed note from 1948.

Assignment of goodwill of business, William Rowse to the Purchase Finance Company Ltd.

One sheet of vellum measuring 52cm x 40cm, folded in two and signed and sealed by Henry Hill. The indenture records the grant of a mortgage as security for a loan from Thomas Chapple to Henry Hill over: a variety of property and land in Northmolton, Devon; a piece of land at Long Holcombe awarded to Henry Hill by the Enclosure Commissioners for the Forest of Exmoor; and property at Garliford, Hareholt and Garliford Mills, Bishops Nympstone. A piece of watermarked paper, signed by Thomas Chapple, is attached (34 cm x 22 cm).