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Notebook - May to August 1967

A government-supplied Shorthand Notebook dated May to August 1967, containing notes from visits to a variety of industrial buildings and works throughout the UK but particularly in Somerset, Westmorland and Wales. Sites visited include breweries, foundries, rope-walks, collieries, quarries and slate, brick and granite-works. The contents are itemized on the front cover. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. Unindexed mills at Bovey Tracey, Pontlliw (referencing Penallt millstones) and Felindre, Swansea were also visited, as was the millstone quarry at Penallt, Monmouthshire.

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

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

Somerset: Barrow Gurney - Lydford on Fosse

Notes on Somerset watermills. Also refers to the following mills: Barrow Gurney; Brass Mill, Bath; Carrs' Lower Mill, Bath; Coombe Down Paper Mill, Bath; Cannington Park Mill; Chard Common Incline, Chard; Sunshine Mills, Chard; Lead Works, Charterhouse; Old Chewton Lead Works, Chewton Mendip; St. Cuthbert's Lead Works, Chewton Mendip; Corfe; North End Mill, Creech St. Michael; Norton Fitzwarren; Silk Mill, Evercreech; Duckworth Pump, Frome; Nimmer Mills, Ilminster; Saltford Brass Mill, Keynsham; Higher Mill, Kilve; Nether Mill, Kilve; Lydford on Fosse.