- CUTT-04189
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- 6 July 1983
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Piece in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' on how the pioneering steps taken in East Suffolk to preserve some of their windmills is being followed by West Sussex and Bucks County Councils.
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Piece in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' on how the pioneering steps taken in East Suffolk to preserve some of their windmills is being followed by West Sussex and Bucks County Councils.
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Snippet in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' about various people in the mills preservation world ending with Mr Amos Clarke of Ipswich whose firm tries whenever possible to avoid tearing down an old mill but, instead, to restore it.
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Cutting from the 'Evening News' with snippets about the millers' customs about parking sails in the evening ("Miller's Pride"); Mr J.A.Davidson's model collection; his brother T. Gerrard Davidson the surveyor to S.P.A.B.; and London's only millwright, Mr Rex Wailes.
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Cutting from the Hull 'Daily Mail' about how 17-year-old Graham Wilson, of Cottingham, has nearly finished building a model post mill that, when completed, will produce proper flour.
"Energy in ebb and flow of tides"
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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.
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Pages from an unknown magazine of unknown date, containing an illustrated article by Rex Wailes on windmills from various parts of Britain and Europe.
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Piece in the 'Huddersfield Examiner' about how Rex Wailes is trying to draw attention, in his capacity as technical adviser to the Windmill Committee of S.P.A.B., to the value of windmills for teaching young engineers.
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Piece in the 'Evening News' about the imminent appointment by the Minister of Public Buildings & Works, Mr Geoffrey Rippon, of Mr Rex Wailes as the Consultant to oversee the survey of those pieces of our industrial heritage which are worth preserving.
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Cutting from 'The Evening Star' about the efforts of the Suffolk Preservation Society, whose President is Lord Ullswater, to sustain the windmills spread around the county as urged by Mr Rex Wailes at a public meeting recently in Ipswich.
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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.
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Cutting from the 'Evening Star' about Mr Rex Wailes, the technical adviser to S.P.A.B. who specialises in windmills - at present - and has seen nearly fifty mills given attention in the past ten years.
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Piece in 'The Lincoln & Stamford Mercury' about a lecture by Rex Wailes at the Town Hall in which he asked his audience to make a drawing of a windmill before it is to late and the mills have all gone.
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Letter to the Editor of 'Cycling' Magazine from Stanley Freese, asking if "R.W." (= Rex Wailes) can idenetify an alleged law preventing later buildings from being erected around windmills: he thinks this only applies in the case of the water rights for water mills.
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Article in the 'Dorset County Journal' about the lecture by Rex Wailes, newly appointed as Adviser on the preservation of industrial buildings to the Minister of Public Buildings and Works.
"Campaign to Preserve or Record"
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Article in the Stroud (Gloucs) 'News & Journal' about a lecture which Mr Rex Wailes gave at the Technical College about his campaign to save or record what is left of Britain's industrial heritage before it is too late.
"'Greatest living expert' talks about Windmills"
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Cutting from the Ipswich 'Evening Star' about the talk which Rex Wailes gave to the Suffolk Preservation Society.
"Rex Wailes' talk to the Hampshire House Photographic Society"
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Note in the 'West London Observer' about Rex Wailes' talk on the history of windmills, with his comprehensive series of slides.
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Article in 'The Listener' about a talk by Rex Wailes about what had happened in the past thirty years to the windmills in America.
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Comment in 'Engineering' about how Rex Wailes had been appointed head of the survey of British industrial monuments, to decide what should be preserved.
"Windmill days in York recalled"
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Report in the 'Yorkshire Evening Press' of a lecture on "The English Windmill", given last night by Rex Wailes to help raise funds for the restoration of Holgate Mill, York.