"Rambling Recollections of a Rural Miller", extracts
- UNIO-01-84-01
- Item
- 1980
Author's life stories. Photocopies of pp 14, 42, 44, 45.
Hancock, Philip (d c1988), miller
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"Rambling Recollections of a Rural Miller", extracts
Author's life stories. Photocopies of pp 14, 42, 44, 45.
Hancock, Philip (d c1988), miller
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
File entry's REXW-ESS-20 and REXW-ESS-21 are of the same mill, but were filed in different envelopes by Rex Wailes
Scrapbook of postcards and photographs
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Scrapbook of postcards and photographs. Includes 12 Liebig cards, postcards of UK and foreign mills, photographs of mills in Bedfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, and USA. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 53.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent and Sussex.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Sussex, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Includes SPAB Mill Section visit to Herringfleet Mill and the reopening of Union Mill, Cranbrook.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Saunderson's, Millwrights of Louth, Lincolnshire (unpublished) Vol 1
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Album of research notes and raw material compiled by Stephen Buckland.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Horizontal Watermills and Norias
Part of Michael Harverson Collection
"Horizontal Watermills Berthold Moog pre 1994. Noria Saqiyeh on postcards". Includes a slide of Rex Wailes, the photograph of which was found in MH's copy of "English Windmills" (now in HARV-087).
FWG 03613 Brass stamp 02: Hammer Mill, Holbeam
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
Brass stamp of the Hammer Mill, Holbeam, Devon, taken by E M Gardner. Possibly commissioned by the SPAB Windmill Section and probably acquired by Frank from Rex Wailes.
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
FWG 03612 Brass stamp 01: Hammer Mill, Holbeam
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
Brass stamp of the Hammer Mill, Holbeam, Devon, taken by E M Gardner. Possibly commissioned by the SPAB Windmill Section and probably acquired by Frank from Rex Wailes.
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
"Otterton Mill, Devon - The Last Working Mill on the River Otter"
Part of Brian Eighteen Mill Collection
Guide gives historical context from Doomsday to the present day. The disolution of the monosteries during Henry XVIII reign enabled Otterton Mill to become a substantial corn mill on the River Otter. Restoration began in 1976 and continued by Desna Greenhow who became miller and director. The guide gives details of the Water wheels, machinery, stone floor, mill stream and sluices and milling process. There is the Otterton Mill Gallery space for exibiting crafts and professional exhibitions.
Greenhow, Desna, miller
"Energy in ebb and flow of tides"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Article in the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' summarising a paper in 'Engineering' by Rex Wailes on "Tide Mills in Great Britain", in which he claims that they can be traced back as early as AD1170.
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Note in the 'English Digest', quoting from the 'New English Weekly', on Rex Wailes' survey of the tide-mills around the coasts of England, one of which has worked continuously since AD 1170.
"'Greatest living expert' talks about Windmills"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from the Ipswich 'Evening Star' about the talk which Rex Wailes gave to the Suffolk Preservation Society.
"'Jigsaw' move for Suffolk watermill"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from the 'Eastern Daily Press' about how the ancient watermill near Holbrook in Suffolk is to be dismantled and re-erected at the Stowmarket museum of Rural Life.