Images and documents on windmills and watermills in various regions of the UK, Europe and the USA. Includes material on the sugar mills of Barbados. Some parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries; the remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Display boards from the Molinological Conference ('Molicon'), 1979. Copies of drawings of Wrawby post mill by C T G B, 1968. Three films:UK windmills inc Paxton and Bourne, 1968; Denmark windmills, May 1974; Blakedown Forge, Churchill, Worcestershire, July 1971.
Images and cuttings, mainly of windmills with some material on watermills, covering most UK counties. Parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries. The remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Card Index comprising 30k millers. Index of mills by county. Ringbinders of letters to Tom Hine in response to his article in Family Tree Magazine re. his index of mills and millers.
Brent Mill. Extracts from "The Story of Watling Street and The Brent" by Sidney Keyes. Old b/w photo of the mill; noted taken in 1885; demolished 1901; sent to Tom Hine by Tony Brown and Janet Capan Brown March 1999.
Transcript of Indenture for Sellinge Windmill transcribed by Jenny Paterson between owner and millwright /builder of the mill.
Barking Abbey & Tamworth Mill excavations. Copy report by Kenneth MacGowan supplied by Thames Valley Archaeological Services.
Hagbourne Mill Oxon. Copy Preliminary Building Investigation Report & Recording by Queenpost Building Histories.
Letters from Haines to Titley and correspondence between Titley and Wailes; on Chesterton Mill, other windmills and related subjects. Also notebook with notes, measurements and sketches re. Sibsey, Alford, Heckington, Chesterton and Burton Dassett mills.
Notebooks, correspondence, published and unpublished work, photographs, postcards and photocopies from publications; relating to wind and water mills from the UK and around the world.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
The collection of Covenant deeds and Abstracts of Title relating to the new Corn Mill of East Ryppe, Lydd shed light on the ever changing terms and conditions of the status and ownership of the mill for the period between 1801 and 1905.
