Archive Catalogue

View from bottom of hill, Nixey's Mill, Brill

REXW-25684
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

SPAB compliments card

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

Post mill, Syleham

REXW-25582
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on reverse reads "A typical Suffolk post mill. It was very severely damaged in a freak storm in 1946 just after its new arm had put it into first class working order. It now works with two sails only but the owner hopes to be able to replace the other two."

Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer

Close-up of model showing interior, Sprowston Mill, Sprowston Heath

REXW-23313
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Mr H. O Clark's model of Sprowston post mill near Norwich - model now in Science museum.

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

Rex measuring up the head wheel, Tower mill, Norton Subcourse

REXW-18038
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Rex Wailes takes measurements from the grounded headwheel and windshaft of a drainage mill. Photographed marked 'Norton Staithe' on reverse.

Unknown photographer

Hawridge Common Mill, Cholesbury, preserved

REXW-09511
Item
1937

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

from Harry Meyer Collection

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

Press Cuttings Collection

CUTT
Collection
Early 20th century - 2015

Press cuttings relating to windmills and watermills.

The Mills Archive

Albert Dean with dog, Town Mill, Biddenden

REXW-24073
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Albert Dean with dog in garden. Note on reverse reads 'Biddenden, Kent, 1938' in handwriting of Rex Wailes.

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

Miller and dog, Town Mill, Biddenden

SPAB-01384
Item
1938

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Note on reverse reads 'Bidden, Kent 1938' in handwriting of Rex Wailes. Mildred Cookson has added 'Unidentified, Biddenden, Kent. Probably shows Albert Dean + Family'.

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

Peter Dolman Collection

DOLM
Collection
c 1900 - 2002

Collection of windmill and watermill photographs, drawings, research notes, correspondence and other documents relating to UK mills, with particular emphasis on the regions of Bedfordshire, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. Includes research on Whitmore and Binyon Ltd, millwrights and engineers.

Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller

Wind turbine beside remains of Carsington tower mill

SMDN-2024.0014-02
Item
March 2023

Part of Small Donations

Banks, Peter

Remains of Carsington tower mill

SMDN-2024.0014-01
Item
March 2023

Part of Small Donations

Banks, Peter

Notebooks

REXW-NOT
Series
1901 - 1986

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Posters - The Amy Nicholls Mill Competition

NICH-REP-BAR-012-001
Item
1995

Part of David Nicholls (Millwright) Collection

1 x 43 cm by 27.5 cm and 1 x 32.5 cm by 25.5 cm poster aimed at community and educational groups encouraging entries into a competition to research and record information about the remaining mill sites on Barbados. Sponsored by the Chiltern Partnership, the Barbados National Trust and the Barbados Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

Project in progress - photographs

NICH-REP-BAR-011
Subfile
c. 1994, 2009

Part of David Nicholls (Millwright) Collection

6 images of the restoration project in progress (c.1994), 4 of which printed onto standard A4 paper and 2 printed onto A4 photographic paper. The final image (again, printed onto standard A4 paper) is of the aftermath of a storm in 2008, after which the sails were taken down and restored in 2009.

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright