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Photograph of painting of unidentified mill

Image of a painting found in a cupboard at Gad's Hill School, Kent. The school was founded in 1924 and the painting is signed by Joan Riches, who was head girl in 1925.

Riches, Joan

Mill sale notices

Copies of notices for mill in Congham, to let; Cliffe, for sale; Chatham, for sale; and Borstal Mill, Rochester, for sale

Bonnett, Bob

"Sugar Mills Carr"

Envelope contains a greetings card of a sugar plantation and sugar mill in an unidentified location in Caribbean.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills

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'.

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

Pocket notebook - 1931 or later

A repurposed pocket diary for November 1931 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Hunts, Cambs, Suffolk" with brief notes on, and/or references to, the mills listed at "Place access points" below. The notes also mention an unidentified, 17th century smock mill at 'Ickleton, Suffolk' which had a thatched roof and had been pulled down at the end of the 19th century.

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

Plaque showing an unidentified mill

"Plaque showing an unidentified mill, property of Rex Wailes. Photograph Hallam Ashley, F.R.P.S., New Costessey, Norwich, for R Wailes ".

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

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