Archive Catalogue

Oldland Mill, Keymer

REXW-GPN-A-039
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Old Post Mill, Lydd

REXW-25010
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Text on reverse reads "Lydd. Kent. See Coles Finch facing p228. Burnt Feb 26 1900. Copy to Dr M. Dunn"
Coles Finch (1933) gives Miss Goble as the source of this image. The Gobles were the last millers at the Old Mill.
Michael Dunn donated his copy to the SPAB (SPAB-24129).

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

Old post mill, Great Clacton

REXW-ESS-34-01
Item
c 1912

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on reverse reads "Down about 1912"

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

Old Mill, Wittersham

REXW-25345
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Everett and Ashdown, Publishers, Tenterden, kent

Unknown photographer

Old Mill, Wittersham

REXW-IMG-01-142
Item
Before 1922

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection. Labelled "Udimore, near Rye, Sussex", but in fact Old Mill, Wittersham.
Annotated on reverse "Shews method of fan drive... Drive taken down the back of mill and down stairs to wheels on bottom of ladder. Peculiar to Sussex."

Unknown photographer

Old mill, Foulness Island

REXW-ESS-28-01
Item
nd

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Farrow, Frank

Old mill, Finchingfield

REXW-ESS-27-11
Item
nd

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Arthur, Alan

Old Mill, Cross in Hand, Sussex

REXW-IMG-01-189
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.

Unknown

Old mill, Chadwell Heath

REXW-ESS-18-05
Item
nd

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on reverse reads "Head & Tail stones were 2 other mill"

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

'Notes Watermills'

REXW-NOT-035
Item
1972

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

"Notes on Windmills"

REXW-WIN-01-25
File
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

"Northiam, Sussex"

REXW-IMG-02-116
Item
15 August 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

North Street, Sussex

REXW-IMG-05-168
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

"NorthStreet, Sussex. Photo E. L. Burne".

Burne, Edward Lancaster (1869-1946), engineer

Norfolk

REXW-MIL-02-20
File
1940 - 1959

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Lists of wind and water mills; Report on Hunworth Mill per Dr. James Elliott; Report on the Norfolk Survey of mills, 1940; John Russell's recollections on Stalham Mill; Notes on Cooke's Mill, Stalham per G. Brislaw; notes on Billingford tower mill per Mr. S. Daines, miller; notes on West Marsh Mill, West Somerton and Post mill, Thornham Magna, 1959.