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"Sail Bargains - Sturdily built and ripe for renovation, a windmill can be converted into a wonderful home"

Restored 18th-19th century windmill. Edenbridge Windmill was abandoned in the 1930s. It was a much admired landmark restored by Bob Austwick, a college lecturer who had previous experience in restoration of old buildings. It was sold as a mill without sails to reduce insurance costs and run as a residence re. utilities.

Terry Hope (Sunday Times)

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Suffolk; Ford Mill; Ivybridge, Painshill, Falfield; Dale Abbey, Painshill; Sheffield Mills; tiles, Surrey trip; Stotfold; Wales 1986; Rowlands; Painshill and crowds; Ockham; Hemingway's weekend; wind engines; Titt; Cogges; Morse collection; wind engines 5/1/1990; Switzerland mills 6/96; Gelli Groes 16/3/92; Copenhagen, Wray Common; Dunham Massey; Brampton; Moor Mill; Gunpowder; Gelli Groes; tall ships, Park Mill; Hessenpark, Saalburg; Park Mill; Yorks Mills; Dorset; Wollaton, Churchill; Broad Eye, Isington, Doolittle; Sheffield mills; Lowcross Mill; Doolittle; Wilton, Donford; Kibworth.

Negatives

Deans Farm, Caversham; Gelli Groes; Kilcott Mill; North Furzeham, Devon; Fairford Mill; Wray Common, Reigate; Wortley Forge; Lancaster Burnes; midland mills; Churchill and Brampton; Ford Mill, Felin Newydd; Crug y Bar; Waltham Abbey; Kibworth; Brampton and Carlisle; Stainsby; M de la Chaussee; Moulins a Sarasin; Ravenbury Mill.

Negatives

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.

'Notes Watermills'

Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.

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

Album of negatives (3)

Album of negative strips in various sizes, of windmills and watermills, views of London, and the 1968 SPAB Spring Mill Tour. The following mills are listed: Post mill, Bourn; Cattell's Mill, WiIllingham; Tower mill, Over; King's Mill, Shipley; Wicken Fen Mill, Wicken Fen; Watermill, Wroughton; Abbey Mill, Reading; Smock mill, Willesborough; Lower Mill, Woodchurch; Shepherd Wheel, Porter, Sheffield; Abbeydale Hamlet, Sheffield; Post mill, Ramsey; Outwood Post Mill, Outwood; Ashton Mill, Chapel Allerton; Stratford Mill, Blaise Castle Estate, Henbury.

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

"Home is wanted for a windmill"

Piece in the 'Yorkshire Post' about the need for a new home for the pieces of Little Smeaton windmill that, after dismantling, were stored on land at Heslington Hall which is now the site for York's new university.

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