"Handing the sail into position"
- REXW-MIL-04-07-12
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- October 1930
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
The Hunts fitting a new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
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"Handing the sail into position"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
The Hunts fitting a new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"The fenland’s story famed. View from Mere Mill with Soham church visible 2 miles away"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"View from wind-shaft of Mere Mill looking towards Ely Cathedral. The sail shown has no 'gore'"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
'Gore' is used to describe an extra piece held between the whip and the stock.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Tom Hunt fixing the bolts to secure the new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
The Hunts arriving at Mere Mill with a new sail.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Merry work. The back has just touched the ground'"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
The miller with family and friends pulling the 'anti-bump' rope to keep the sail back from bumping against the mill as it is lowered.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
"Fixing the chain. View from the lower end of the sail"
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Tom and Jack fastening a chain to the poll hub.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Tom Hunt standing on the sails after disconnecting and removing the striking rod.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Lakenheath Old Lode by the Little Ouse River showing wind, steam and oil pumps standing together.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Smock mill, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Hunt, C U
Gearing in the Old Mill at Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A note on the reverse reads, "Gearing in the Old Mill at Nantucket. Photographed in 1896 by C.U. Hunt.".
Hunt, C U
Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
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
T.B. Paisley's 'Windmill Notes'
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A 'spring folio', binding together loose pages comprising 'Windmill Notes, compiled from various sources by T.B. Paisley'. The folio is divided into the following sections: 'English Windmills. Arranged by Counties' and 'Foreign Windmills' (USA and France). The folio covers the counties listed at 'Place access points below' with brief details of selected post, tower and smock mills there and the date visited.
Paisley, Thomas Brownlee (1916-1980)
Research notebook, 1933 to 1935
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Shiremark, Aythorpe Roding, Seaton Ross" containing 8 pages of an undated draft narrative about post mills and paltrok mills. The notebook also contains research notes, drawings and measurements from visits to the following mills: Shiremark Mill, Capel on 12 November 1933 (9 pages); Aythorpe Roding on 1 October 1934 (4 pages); Preston Mill, Seaton Ross on 6 April 1935 (3 pages). Lastly, a long list of 81 windmills, each with what seem to be a key feature noted against them (e.g. "Billericay - collapsed", "Bozeat - winch on tailpole"). Interspersed are notes about two, seemingly unrelated businesses: the Belden Manufacturing Co., Chicago and E.M. Denny & Co, a soft cheese processing plant.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Research notebook for Lacey Green Windmill, Buckinghamshire
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Lacey Green" comprising 4 pages of research notes, drawings and measurements from a visit to Lacey Green Windmill. The remainder of the notebook is blank.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A Reporters' Notebook containing:
Northants: notes taken from 'Northants Notes & Queries, New Series, Vol.4, 1912-1920' relating to: a 1609 grant by James 1 of a post mill at Kettering; the history of an unindexed tower mill (located on the site of a former post mill on Rockingham Road, Kettering) which was demolished in 1893; 18th c. maps of Kettering showing the location of various mills and a 19th c. print showing a post mill at Peterborough; also notes about the post mill at Seaton, Rutland which was demolished in 1917 as well as the nearby watermill, Henry Royce being said to have worked at both mills as a boy.
Suffolk: research notes relating to Suffolk windmills including construction dates, operational status in 1926,1939 and 1955 and including the notable features listed in 'Subject access points' below.
Windmill restoration: eight pages of draft narrative rehearsing the demise of wind and watermills since the late 19th c. and extolling the efforts of John Russell to restore and preserve Union Mill, Cranbrook. The narrative rehearses the preservation efforts made by a number of local authorities (counties listed in 'Place access points' below) arguing that it should be essential for such work to be their responsibility.
Windmills still in operation: notes running from back-to-front in the notebook listing, 'How many still in use', which are 'Workable' and 'When used and why'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Research notebook, 1925, 1938 and 1962
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A partially-filled technical notebook featuring notes, drawings and measurements for 'Cranbrook Mill' with a focus on the 'cannister head', striking gear, windshaft, weatherboarding, curb and fan. The drawings include a cross-section showing the 'framing of one side of tower - 4th floor'. There are also undated notes on 'Stanstead Mill' with notes [possibly from the miller] on how to dress stones.
Notes from September 1938 detail a visit to 'Stanton Mill' as well as very detailed notes taken following a visit to Mr John Smith at 'Holton Mill'. These notes appear to be taken from Mr Smith's recollections of numerous mills, millers and millwrights in the area, (e.g. Yoxford, Tunstall, Theberton, Snape) as well as further afield (e.g. Edenbridge, Outwood and Patcham).
A final single page of notes related to a visit to 'Polegate' on 20 March 1962.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
'The Windmills of Suffolk, Part II, Tower Mills' - manuscript
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
90 pages of manuscript for a paper entitled, 'The Windmills of Suffolk, Part II, Tower mills' which begins, 'The tower mills of Suffolk, like the post mills, suffered heavily between the years 1926 & 1939'.
Wailes notes that whilst smock and tower mill are listed separately at the end of the paper for the purpose of comparing their operational status in 1926 and again in 1937-1939, in the remainder of the paper, 'both smock and tower mills will be dealt with as one type'. The paper then tracks the research noted in REXW-NOT-039-001.
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
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