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Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925

A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.

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

Tottenhill, near King's Lynn, Norfolk

Tottenhill, near King's Lynn, Norfolk

Note on reverse reads: "Building believed residence, and mill is an oil engine mill with 2 pairs of stones. Two pairs still ion the old postmill and it still works. Flour dresser and Bakehouse in centre. Top of old Sporle (near Swaffham) windmill, pulled down about 1900) on right of bakehouse used as flour store."

Unknown photographer

Cap on ground, post mill, Tottenhill

Cap on ground, post mill, Tottenhill

647. This was the original postcard he marketed, and located it at "SPORLE". This is the cap roof of the tower mill at Sporle, moved to Tottenhill post mill and set up as a shed. It was still there in 1998

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

Cap on ground

Cap on ground

HESS catalogue #1268. This is the cap roof of the tower mill at Sporle, moved to Tottenhill post mill and set up as a shed. It was still there in 1998.

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

"Windmill Restoration Plan"

"Windmill Restoration Plan"

Report in the 'Eastern Evening News' of the start at Cley-next-the-Sea's Tower Mill of the Norfolk CC's project for restoring 18 of the County's former windmills. The mills to be covered are :-The Tower Windmills at - Burnham Overy, Cley, Stow Mill (Paston), Sutton, Billingford, Caston, Denver, Walpole Highway, Ringstead, Worstead and Blakeney. The Tower wind pumps at - Berney Arms, Horsey, Hunsett, Thurne Dyke, Stracey Arms and High's Mill (Potter Heigham). The Post Mill at Tottenhill.

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