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Part of Oldland Mill Archive
Oldland Mill Stocks and Sweeps; 2005-6; 39 mins; Gordon King, Danny Jarmann and Roy Short.
Oldland Mill Stone Refurbishment; 2006-7; 27 mins; video by Gordon King.
Oldland Mill New Brakewheel; 2008; 73 mins; Gordon King and Danny Jarmann.
Oldland Mill Sweeps Refurbishment; 2011; 30 mins; video by Gordon King, narration by Mick Fitter.
Photo from rear of mill showing 4 Common Sails
Mill with four common sails.
Unknown photographer
Photo from entrance showing Common Sails
Mill with four common sails.
Unknown photographer
John Russell initially fitted two common and two shuttered sails. Photo taken in process to all shuttered sails.
Unknown photographer
Rex Wailes photos of the fitting of new sweeps
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
View of Union Mill with one pair of Common Sails
Preparations for fitting of second pair of spring sails.
Tremenheere, Wynn (1923-2015), chairman of Cranbrook Windmill Association
View of Union Mill from rear of Tippens Close
Written on back "Second pair of spring sails 1919".
Tremenheere, Wynn (1923-2015), chairman of Cranbrook Windmill Association
Shows improvements made by Russell, John after inheriting the mill in 1919.
Unknown photographer
"Ebenezer Samuel Russell (1829 -1883)"
Text references Helen Wilson and letters of John Russell (1888-1958).
Tremenheere, Wynn (1923-2015), chairman of Cranbrook Windmill Association
Millwright, Cranbrook, Hythe Mill. Comments unsubstantiated.
Singleton, Tony
Chapter 5 - The windmill's sails in all their variety
Part of Wynn Tremenheere Collection
Charlie Ball (left) and his son (second left) from the millwright firm of Christy and Norris are making a new stock and sails in the grounds of the Mill. On the right is Fell Christy (aged 25), the son of the owner of Christy and Norris, in his first year with the firm after attending university. The fourth person is unidentified.
Striking gear spider and linkage
Originally Upminster windmill had common canvas sails but these were replaced around 1850 with Cubitt patent shutters.
The damaged mill seen shortly after the storm.
During a storm the stock of the forward sail snapped. Here millwright Vincent Pargeter is making safe the damage and removing parts of the striking gear.
A stock clamp is raised up to the new sails
Millwright Vincent Pargeter is preparing the bolts to secure the new clamp
Replacing a storm damage sail and stock
Millwright Vincent Pargeter is directing the lowering of the new stock into the wind shaft canister
Part of James Waterfield Collection
Waterfield, James, miller and millwright
Part of Christopher Wallis Collection
"Steel beam units to support Six Mile Bottom Windmill" drawing and edited carbon copy;
" 6 mile striking gear" drawing;
"New timber cladding: scaffold arrangement" drawing;
" Comparison of fit of existing sweep with new 2nd hand sweeps from Great Gransden post mill" drawing;
"Preliminary survey and strengthening" drawing.