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"W.Caister, 'Steam mill' in distance, from Charles Green".
Green, Charles
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"W.Caister, 'Steam mill' in distance, from Charles Green".
Green, Charles
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Paddle wheel at either Pinchbeck, Lincs, Pode Hole Pump or Pinchbeck Marsh Pumping Station.
Watkins, George
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Unidentified gearing
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Unknown smock mill Fenland, Cambridgeshire
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Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
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Possibly balance bob for waterwheel in mine building.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Tail end of a wooden windshaft showing tail journal
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Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Tail end of a wooden windshaft showing tail journal
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Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Skew gear behind brake wheel driving a cross-shaft inside post mill
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interior
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Sack hoist inside a tower mill
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Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Sack hoist inside a tower mill
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Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
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Bundle of research notes on:
Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills
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A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.
Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.
Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Pocket notebook - 1931 or later
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A repurposed pocket diary for November 1931 measuring 6.5 cm x 9 cm and marked "Hunts, Cambs, Suffolk" with brief notes on, and/or references to, the mills listed at "Place access points" below. The notes also mention an unidentified, 17th century smock mill at 'Ickleton, Suffolk' which had a thatched roof and had been pulled down at the end of the 19th century.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Note 'per E.L.B' - Couldson Common Mill
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Note entitled, 'per E.L.B.' regarding Coulsdon Common Mill as follows: 'Belonged to a man named Brigden who had a post-mill at Sydenham & a smock (hand winded) at Ewell, Surrey. The mill had two [common] sails & two springs or patents, can't say which. As a lad Brigden's man told me that his boss christened her, which might date the mill to the 50's or early 60's. Went over when a lad about 1884, when I think she had only just finished work'.
Joseph Addison's notebook - Dorset
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A notebook belonging to Joseph Addison, found among those belonging to Rex Wailes. The notebook is labelled 'Book No.7' and features detailed notes and drawings in Addison's distinctive hand. Whilst the notebook is not named, the date of the visits recorded in the notebook correspond with photographs of his held in both the Mills Archive collection and by the Historic England Archive.
As well as details of the various mills visited (see 'Place access points' below) and particularly detailed records of the photographs taken, the notebook features copious notes taken from visits to various Dorset libraries as well as to the county archives. The notes include: lists of mills featuring in old maps of Dorset, including several that are unindexed, for example Moor Mill at Higher Nyland; notes taken from 'Hutchinson' at Poole Library, the Great Canford Book 1822 and various other 17th c. to 19th c. property records relating to historic mills and millers in West Lulworth, Canford Magna, Sydling St Nichols, Dorchester, Whitchurch Canonicorum, the Bryanston Estate, Blandford Forum and East Stoke. There are several references to Rex Wailes' work on Dorset mills, including obtaining a 'list of mills supplied by Simmons to Rex Wailes' relating to 7 unidentified mills from Dorchester archives.
Other sections include: detailed drawings of 'Cut Mill' and 'Creekmoor' [Bushels Mill, Poole], Lattiford Mill, Wincanton and at Bryanston; notes on a tour of mills between Beaminster, Uplyme and Lyme Regis following a visit from a Mr and Mrs Willoughby (also cross referencing notes on the area made by Rex Wailes); notes taken after attempting to locate Sow Mill (near Sowley Pond) on the Beaulieu Estate; notes taken on a visit to the site of SW Potteries at Parkstone, Poole.
A large section focuses on the manufacture, location and use of horse gear in Dorset, including notes from Kelly's Directories on horse gear manufacturers, particularly Taylor & Sons, Dorchester and Watson & Haig, Andover. Notes are made following a visit to Birkin House, Dorchester (where a horse gear had been used to draw water from a well until 1957) and of numerous attempts to locate horse gears at various Dorset properties. Detailed drawings are made of of the horse gear at Lower Monkwood Farm, Pilsdon, Bridport and Pylewell House.
Addison, Joseph
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Dated 1953 on reverse. Annotated 'From"Courier Press" Leamington Spa'.
Unknown
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Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex