Archive Catalogue

REXW-NOT-025
Item
26 June 1936

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

REXW-NOT-020
Item
Undated

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Slides of various subjects on Wales and Windpump, Rotherhithe

JSPB-SLI-17
Subseries
July 1976

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Slides of Pelton wheels, a slate quarry near Harlech, Gwynedd, and the windpump at Rotherhithe.
Note in the box: "Wales, July 1976. Centre for Inferred Techy - windmills (Thomas of Worcester notably) & Pelton wheel, wheelwell & rail; slate quarry & its wall nr Harlech; Pelton wheel at work Downtown windpump, 26.7.76".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Garboldisham or Stanningfield"

JSPB-PHT-10-029
Item
1950s

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Fison's mill, Soham, Cambs, for Mr Fison"

ASHL-NEG-502
Item
June 1948

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

A skeleton mill designed by C J R Fyson, located in Soham, Cambridgeshire.

"Fison's mill, Soham, Cambs, for Mr Fison"

ASHL-NEG-501
Item
June 1948

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

A skeleton mill designed by C J R Fyson, located in Soham, Cambridgeshire.

Photograph of "Brighton railway under construction"

SMDN-2014.0035-02
Item
2010 (original painting c 1840)

Part of Small Donations

The River, Martham

WPAC-WIN-00770
Item
1919 or earlier

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1919 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.

Unknown publisher

Unidentified mill, interior machinery

VENN-IMG-02-103
Item
c 1950

Part of James Venn Collection

Possibly a mill in Pakenham, according to writing on original packaging.

Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist

Unidentified mill

ADAM-054
Item
1937 - 1940

Part of Ken Adams Collection

Untitled

WATE-071
Item
20th Century

Part of James Waterfield Collection

Waterfield, James, miller and millwright

Photograph of painting of unidentified mill

SMDN-2018.0011
Item
c 1925

Part of Small Donations

Image of a painting found in a cupboard at Gad's Hill School, Kent. The school was founded in 1924 and the painting is signed by Joan Riches, who was head girl in 1925.

Riches, Joan