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Notebook

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 a 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 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.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Lantern slides of windmills

Lantern slides taken from negatives in the collection and a lantern slide produced by Newton and Co. Ltd., Covent Garden (code BNL 671) of John Crome's "A Windmill on Mousehold Heath".

Essex

Negatives of windmills in Essex.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Cambridgeshire

Negatives of windmills in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Some mills have been placed and labelled as Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, but are historically in Bedfordshire and Essex.
329: 1 glass plate negative and lantern slide.
408: 1 glass plate negative and lantern slide.
488: 1 negative and lantern slide.
493: 1 negative and lantern slide.
570: 1 glass plate negative and lantern slide.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Report - Bocking Windmill

Two reports by Nicholl's co-director, Chris Wallis, on Bocking Windmill, Braintree marked "DON Purely for General Background Information".
(1) Six page manuscript report (pages 1 to 9). Details the condition of the mill with a recommendation that preliminary work is carried out to expose hidden timbers allowing their condition to be assessed, a complete dimensions survey to be taken and a priced bill of quantities to be drawn up. The cost of this preliminary work (including the removal of the sails and stock) is £600.
(2) Four pages of drawings and measurements (pages 10 to 14) for works to improve the mill's stability. Includes drawings for a steel beam support to the mill's broken shears as well as for a cranked beam.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Report and correspondence - South Ockendon

(1) 14 page report on South Ockendon Smock Mill to Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Limited (APCM), prepared by Nicholls for Jameson Marshall Limited in November 1976. The report covers the mill's history, condition, proposed works for its repair and an estimate of costs (£69,980). Suggestions are made regarding the mill's ongoing upkeep after restoration and queries whether it should be handed over to Essex County Council, "one of the most advanced counties in respect of conservation of mills".
(2) Covering letter for the report from Nicholls to APCM (10 November 1976).
(3) Letter from Nicholls to Monica Dance (SPAB) requesting a letter of support for the restoration project be sent to the board of APCM.
(4) Revised costs for immediate essential works to safeguard structure and a reduced schedule and specification for the main repairs (13 June 1977).
(5) Copy letter from the County Planner, Essex County Council to the Historic Building Council referencing a reduced specification and estimate for the repair work (£46,000) and soliciting support for grant aid under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 (20 June 1977).

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Various ephemera

Miscellaneous ephemera listed as:
Copy of a painting from a calendar called “Downland Farm” by C. Water Smith, C 1514, "From Miss Ingram".
Page from "Naturopa 36" (1980) showing Kinderdijk windmills, Netherlands.
Cecil Sale calendar from November to January 1970 depicting Aythorpe Roding post mill.
Magazine article on Heckington Mill by Sheila Robinson.
Calendar page of a Houghton Mill, Huntingdonshire, March 1974.
Calendar page depicting a watercolour of a post mill by Sylvester Stannard, published by C W Faulkner & Co Ltd, London.
Page from "The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, Second Series, Part 1" (1920) reproducing Thomas Girtin's "A Mill in Essex" (1799).
Page from from "She" magazine (between 1955-1964) showing Rolvenden post mill.
Calendar page from 1947 depicting a watercolour of a smock mill. An inscription on the reverse reads: "Wishing Harry & Doris a Happy Christmas and Peaceful New Year. From Mary & Roni 1947-48".
Picture of T. B. Latchmore's photograph of Bassingbourn mills, Cambridgeshire.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

"Old Mill, G. Bardfield"

Note on the reverse reads: "Doris & I to Bardfield 21.5.38".
Farmer ploughing the fields with a pair of shire horses.

Unknown photographer

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