Images and documents

"Rambling Recollections of a Rural Miller", extracts

UNIO-01-84-01
Item
1980

Part of Union Windmill Cranbrook Collection

Author's life stories. Photocopies of pp 14, 42, 44, 45.

Hancock, Philip (d c1988), miller

"Cornmill at Wapenvelde, Gelderland"

UNIO-01-63-01
Item
No date

Part of Union Windmill Cranbrook Collection

Christmas wishes message from Rex Wailes.

Hennell, Thomas (1903-1945), artist

Correspondence with Rex Wailes and others

WEST-25879
Subseries
No date

Part of Jenny West Collection

Correspondence relating to Jenny's Kent research.

Rex Wailes' opening address

SPAB-16828
Item
1960

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Taken at the Celebration arranged to accompany the rasing of the sweeps

Rex Wailes' opening address

SPAB-16824
Item
1960

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Taken at the Celebration arranged to accompany the rasing of the sweeps

Rex Wailes' opening address

SPAB-16823
Item
1960

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Taken at the Celebration arranged to accompany the rasing of the sweeps

Portrait of Rex Wailes

SPAB-01386
Item
No date

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

At Zaandijk, Netherlands, on a trip as part of the Third International Symposium of Molinology, 1973. Note on reverse reads 'To Enid, Kindest regards from Sally'.

Jespersen, Anders Kragh (1920-2003), miller, millwright and engineer

(Schedule, G Wailes and Co)

SPAB-BAS-391
File
No date

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Slides of Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey mills

SASS-11-03
Series
1964 - 1977

Part of Jon Sass Collection

Slides of various mills around Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey, and elsewhere.

Travis, Edward, millwright

"Canadian Windmills"

SASS-03-26
File
20th century

Part of Jon Sass Collection

Notes, correspondence, photographs and photocopies of articles, publications relating to Canadian windmills including: "A History of Windmills and their place in Canadian life"; copies of letter to Rex Wailes from Edmonton Parks relating to Fort Edmonton windmill; photocopy of "The Toronto Star, June 14 1975 titled "Distillery replaced windmill"; copy of volume 3, no. 3 1976 of "Windmill Whispers", newsletter of the Windmill Study Unit o the American Topical Association; photocopy of "The Mills of Old Quebec"; photocopy of "The Windsor Border Region" by Ernest Lajeunese (1960); envelope containing the Mennonite Village Museum guidebook, a letter to Jon Sass declining his application for a windmill trainee at the museum, magazine produced by the museum about the Steinbach windmill; photocopied list of 14 photographs of French-Canadian windmills; photographs of Steinbach windmill and a tower mill at Ile aux Coudres, Quebec.

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

Obituaries

ROBE-130
File
1980s - 2012

Part of Niall Roberts Collection

Photograph of Rex Wailes, Times obitiuary for Rex Wailes, obituaries for Frank Gregory, obituary for Niall Roberts.

Roberts family

"English Windmills & Windmilling"

ROBE-042
File
April 1977

Part of Niall Roberts Collection

The Conference Folder for the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings Annual Weekend Conference 1977. Contains information on millwrights including biographical information on Vincent Pargeter and Rex Wailes, Ken Major, Bill Heathershaw of North Leverton Mill, and information on Danzey Green Mill, Norton Lindsey Mill, Chestern Mill, Harbury Mill, Berkswell Mill and Saxon Mill, Guy's Cliffe.

Presentation of certificate, Heapham

REXW-WIN-03-09-059
Item
2 June 1952

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Captioned "Presentation of S.P.A.B Windmill Certificate to Geo. E. Hewitt by Rex Wailes. Whit Monday 1952."

Unknown photographer

Presentation of certificate, Heapham

REXW-WIN-03-09-058
Item
2 June 1952

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Captioned "Presentation of S.P.A.B Windmill Certificate to Geo. E. Hewitt by Rex Wailes. Whit Monday 1952."

Unknown photographer

Correspondence with Council for British Archaeology

REXW-IND-07-001
File
1959 - 1960s

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Regarding survey of industrial monuments. Includes minutes of research committee on industrial archaeology, and copy of Rex Wailes' CV. Also includes CBA reports for years 1959-1965.