(1) 14-page report on South Ockendon Smock Mill to Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Limited (APCM), prepared by Nicholls for Jameson Marshall Limited in November 1976. The report covers the mill's history, condition, proposed works for its repair and an estimate of costs (£69,980). Suggestions are made regarding the mill's ongoing upkeep after restoration and queries whether it should be handed over to Essex County Council, "one of the most advanced counties in respect of conservation of mills".
(2) Covering letter for the report from Nicholls to APCM (10 November 1976).
(3) Letter from Nicholls to Monica Dance (SPAB) requesting a letter of support for the restoration project be sent to the board of APCM.
(4) Revised costs for immediate essential works to safeguard structure and a reduced schedule and specification for the main repairs (13 June 1977).
(5) Copy letter from the County Planner, Essex County Council to the Historic Building Council referencing a reduced specification and estimate for the repair work (£46,000) and soliciting support for grant aid under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 (20 June 1977).

(1) One page report by Rex Wailes on Little Hadham smock mill (18 June 1979) referencing "good photographs of the mill herself and a close up of her sails" . The report supports the restoration of the mill as a piece of history "in the solid" as well as advocating for the need for public access to it. Ongoing maintenance is advised, Wailes offering to assist further on the fitting of lightening conductors, "if Mr Nicholls has not already advised on this matter".
(2) Two black and white photographs of the mill (undated, but possibly those referred to by Wailes at (1) above).
(3) Nicholl's draft report (9 pages, double-sided manuscript notes and measurements).
(4) Photocopied pages from "English Windmills, Vol.2", Smith, D. (1932), Architectural Press, pp. 110-114.
(5) Nicholl's 13-page report for Millwrights International Limited to the mill's owner, A.H. Edwards, marked "Confidential". Contains a detailed report on the mill's condition together with a four-stage repair proposal and costings totalling approx. £115,000 (Nicholls adding that even a modified programme of works could not restore the mill for less than £70,000). Help with applications for grant aid is offered, Nicholls commenting that the mill, "is far too important a building to lose".

Information on industrial windmills. Includes references to copper mill, Alderley Edge; brass mill, Macclesfield; Stockport cotton mills; E Lancaster Burne's electricity generating windmill, Newent, Gloucestershire; sawmill, Lamberhurst, Kent; Arundel cement mill.

Copy prints made by Stephen Buckland in 1989 and 1990 of negatives, slides, postcards and photographs in "The Abbott Collection of Photographs, Slides and Postcardsof Windmills in Britain and Europe" at the Science Museum, London (http://archives.sciencemuseumgroup.ac.uk/Details/archivescience/110000006). Stephen Buckland wrote an article on Geoffrey Abbott's collection in "The Newcomen Bulletin", no. 141, August 1988, p.18, a copy of which is available in the Mills Archive Library.
Additional postcards and photographs of windmills in Lot, France by Chris Boyle.

Thingwall, Crowfield, Gwendarr Mill, Overy Mill, Tidworth, Shabden Park, Earls Colne, Brickfield Pump, Caudwell's Mill, Lustleigh, Dullelog.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings on mills around the world.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings on mills around the world.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings, and postcards on mills around the world.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings on mills around the world.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings on mills around the world.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings on mills around the world.

Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings on mills in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Additional photographs found in an envelope, noted as being "Figs for Smock and Tower mill book".

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.