Archive Catalogue

SPAB-WIS-BERKS-04
Item
1778 (copy)

Photograph from Victoria and Albert Museum of painting "The Camp at Cox Heath" by Sandby, showing post mill. It is not clear why this has been filed with the Berkshire material.

Sandby, Thomas (1721-1798), painter

"Blackheath"

JSPB-ART-26
Item
9 October 1815

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Etching of a landscape of Blackheath, Surrey, showing the two post mills.

Prout, Samuel (1783 - 1852), engraver

"Storied Stones Of Cranbrook Church - Visit of Folkestone Natural History Society"

CUTT-05130
Item
8 June 1835

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Kent Messenger". A party from the Folkestone Natural History Society visited Cranford church followed by a visit to the Old Mill at Cranbrook.

"View near Greenwich"

JSPB-ART-16
Item
Early 19th century

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Steel engraving of a view of Greenwich along the Thames, with a smock mill on the embankment.

Tombleson & Co, publishers, London

Folkstone, Kent, view of viaduct with train, houses and coach, windmill in background

BRBC-16499
Item
19 April 1844

Part of Bernard R Billings Collection

Folkstone from a print published by T. Rigden. Annotated separately "This print shows that the number of sweeps was by this date reduced to two".

Unknown artist

Folkstone, Kent, view of town, viaduct and windmill

BRBC-16497
Item
? Before 1844

Part of Bernard R Billings Collection

Photograph labelled on the reverse "One of the mills at Folkstone. The date of this print is probably prior to 1844, as the mill here shown has 4 sweeps: a print of 1844 shows 2 sweeps."
Further annotations says "Folkestone", "This shows that a four-sweep mill stood near where St Michael's church now stands. There are still "Windmill Cottages, Charlotte Street" standing."

Unknown artist

Windmill and watermill

REXW-24660
Item
Copy of original from 1844

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Copy of a print "Folkestone 1844" showing unidentified mills

Unknown artist

Brake wheel, wallower and spur gearing, Tower mill, Stanford

PARG-DRW-30-01
Item
May 1851 [copy]

Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection

Union Mill, showing wide stage which was replaced in 1880

UNIO-01-29-05-01
Item
c 1850

Part of Union Windmill Cranbrook Collection

Photo also shows fantail of 1844, and there is no evidence of the steam engine (1863).

Unknown photographer

Smock mill, Preston, Faversham, with smoke stack

BRBC-14216
Item
1859

Part of Bernard R Billings Collection

Glass slide labelled "Kent Windmills, Preston (Faversham) 1 Smoke Stack 100ft. 1859"

Billings, Bernard Richardson

Buckland Brewery Mill, Dover, with chimney to the right

WEST-20141
Item
Before 1863

Part of Jenny West Collection

A past Mill at Buckland, near Dover.

Unknown photographer

Tower mill, Stanford

REXW-25256
Item
c 1860

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Notes by John Russell:
Still at work 1926. Built by Hills of Ashford
3 pair stones
date about 1860

Unknown photographer

Smock mill, Preston, Faversham

WPAC-WIN-00531
Item
c 1860

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

A handwritten note on the back of the postcard written retrospectively identifies the image as having been taken in c 1860.

Unknown publisher

Ebenezer Samuel Russell (1829 -1883)

UNIO-01-18-01-01
Item
c 1865

Part of Union Windmill Cranbrook Collection

Unknown photographer

Dismantling Regent's Place mill

REXW-23803
Item
Copy of original from 1872

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Copy of old photograph. The smock mill at Regent's Place, Ashford, was dismantled and re-erected at Badlesmere where it became Boundgate Mill. The photograph shows the mill - in its original white-painted form - being dismantled at Ashford. At Badlesmere it was tarred (LB 2006).

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