Archive Catalogue

Research notebook for various mills, 1928 to 1929

REXW-NOT-001
Item
June 1928 to April 1929

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Bledlow Ridge, Summe Holiday June 1928, 1929 Easter in Anglesey" comprising: 5 pages of Rex Wailes' research notes, drawings and measurements from a visit to Bledlow Ridge Mill; 24 page narrative describing Rex Wailes' summer holiday (2 June to 13 June 1928) in which he toured a variety of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire windmills, meeting several millers, mill owners and old friends en route (and recording an open invitation from a Swedish vice-consul for Wailes to visit Sweden to examine its old mills); 27 page narrative describing Rex Wailes' tour of Anglesey over the Easter bank holiday (28 March to 1 April 1929) in which he inspected both wind and watermills, using paperwork forwarded to him by his father, to survey the number of derelict mills (including notes on a mill at Tre-Arddur Bay which he records as the last mill worked by wind on Anglesey).

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

Bledlow Ridge

CHET-008
Item
1930s

Part of Charles and John Chettleburgh Collection

Chettleburgh, Charles

Album of photographs windmills in England

JSPB-ALB-21
File
1959 - 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Photographs taken from negatives created by Peter Pearce and B. R. Billings. They appear to have been in the possession of SPAB at the time of Stephen developing them. Peter Pearce's photographs of predominantly Sussex, with some in Essex, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey, taken between 1925 and 1936. B. R. Billings' photographs were taken between 1913 and 1920.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Bledlow Ridge in derelict state

FREE-1126509
Item
Photocopy of sketch made February 1929

Part of James Venn Collection

Freese, Cyril H

Francis photograph album

JKMC-15493
File
1929-1930

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

Photographs by a Mr Francis of English windmills from the period 1929-30.

"Bledlow Ridge Mill"

REXW-WIN-02-041
File
1933 - 1952

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Negatives

JKMC-FOL-896
File
1980s-2000s

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

N Yorks mills; Path Head, Henley New Mill; mill trip 14/5/94; Cranborne May 1997; Hungary; Kingsley Mill, Hunts cottage; Stanford [?Sandford] Mill, Woodley; Wandle Mill; Oldcastle, 2 Eldon Road; Titt dwgs, Trowbridge, 22/8/2000; Sheffield, Painshall 6/12/97; Belgium '94; Dunham Massey 24/1/2000; Dunster, Gelli Groes; midland mills summer '90; Warwick br; Poughill; Switzerland Mills, 6/96; Nybridge; Sacrewell, 9/5/93, Painshill wall top; Churchill, 24/10/92; Hungary, Bluebell; Suffolk '94, Woodbridge, Buttrums; Brampton Mowsley, 3/98; Bledlow windmill, Town Mill, sails; Crosthwaite, Stott Park; Stainsby, 5/7/97; Buckland Windmill; Bollee Orleans; Gelli Groes, Amberley; Painshill, Gelli Groes, St Victor.

"Windmill at Bledlow Ridge, Bucks - copy negative"

VENN-IMG-01-020
Item
c 1900

Part of James Venn Collection

Unknown photographer

Post mill, Bledlow Ridge

EMGC-05-06-93
Item
c 1930

Part of E M Gardner Collection

Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)

Post mill, Bledlow Ridge

EMGC-05-06-94
Item
c 1930

Part of E M Gardner Collection

Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)

Bledlow Ridge

WPAC-WIN-00952
Item
3 September 1932

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

There is a handwritten note written on the back of the postcard by an unknown hand informing us that this picture is of the Tower Mill at Bledlow Ridge and dating it to "3/9/32".

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher