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Various ephemera

Miscellaneous ephemera listed as:
Copy of a painting from a calendar called “Downland Farm” by C. Water Smith, C 1514, "From Miss Ingram".
Page from "Naturopa 36" (1980) showing Kinderdijk windmills, Netherlands.
Cecil Sale calendar from November to January 1970 depicting Aythorpe Roding post mill.
Magazine article on Heckington Mill by Sheila Robinson.
Calendar page of a Houghton Mill, Huntingdonshire, March 1974.
Calendar page depicting a watercolour of a post mill by Sylvester Stannard, published by C W Faulkner & Co Ltd, London.
Page from "The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, Second Series, Part 1" (1920) reproducing Thomas Girtin's "A Mill in Essex" (1799).
Page from from "She" magazine (between 1955-1964) showing Rolvenden post mill.
Calendar page from 1947 depicting a watercolour of a smock mill. An inscription on the reverse reads: "Wishing Harry & Doris a Happy Christmas and Peaceful New Year. From Mary & Roni 1947-48".
Picture of T. B. Latchmore's photograph of Bassingbourn mills, Cambridgeshire.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Research notes

Collection of undated research notes on:

  • an analysis of Suffolk post mills (72 pages);
  • winding gear (15 pages);
  • Robertson's windmill, Virginia (17 pages);
  • Cranbrook mill (11 pages);
  • a draft paper on the development of windmills, bearing similarity to sections of Wailes' 'Windmills in England' (published 1948) as well as a section on horse gear (24 pages);
  • drawings/tracings of mill mechanisms, particularly bell alarms and sack hoists (3 pages);
  • Suffolk windmills begining with 'W' listed at 'Place access points' below (3 cards);

Also a bundle of loose notes mostly focusing on Suffolk mills, some being undated, those that are ranging in date from 6 October 1928 to 29 April 1932.

Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk

A Reporters' Notebook containing:
Northants: notes taken from 'Northants Notes & Queries, New Series, Vol.4, 1912-1920' relating to: a 1609 grant by James 1 of a post mill at Kettering; the history of an unindexed tower mill (located on the site of a former post mill on Rockingham Road, Kettering) which was demolished in 1893; 18th c. maps of Kettering showing the location of various mills and a 19th c. print showing a post mill at Peterborough; also notes about the post mill at Seaton, Rutland which was demolished in 1917 as well as the nearby watermill, Henry Royce being said to have worked at both mills as a boy.
Suffolk: research notes relating to Suffolk windmills including construction dates, operational status in 1926,1939 and 1955 and including the notable features listed in 'Subject access points' below.
Windmill restoration: eight pages of draft narrative rehearsing the demise of wind and watermills since the late 19th c. and extolling the efforts of John Russell to restore and preserve Union Mill, Cranbrook. The narrative rehearses the preservation efforts made by a number of local authorities (counties listed in 'Place access points' below) arguing that it should be essential for such work to be their responsibility.
Windmills still in operation: notes running from back-to-front in the notebook listing, 'How many still in use', which are 'Workable' and 'When used and why'.

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

'Notes Watermills'

Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.

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

Coloured engraving - "Goffers at Blackheath"

Raphael Tuck and Sons, The Olde Print Series, No. 2653. Not postally used. 'Painted by L. F. Abbott' . 'Engraved by V. Green'. Marked 'JSPB 25/4/63'. A coloured engraving of a golfer and his caddy on Blackheath, with a post mill in the background. Post mill has common sails and a roundhouse and there is a house behind.

Raphael Tuck and Sons

The Wittersham post mills, Kent, their owners and millers

A file containing copious typewritten notes, with handwritten annotations. Titled "Fair copy of completed MS. Text and notes and appendix (1 page) - 13,500 - 14,000 words (rough estimate)... Xerox given to Science Museum library 5/5/04."

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

"Selling, Shottenden"

Note on the reverse: "Perry Wood n.d (p.c) ie Shelling, Shottenden or Perry Wood mill".

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

"Rolvenden"

Note on the reverse: "Rolvenden n.d.".

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

"Keston"

Note on the reverse: "Keston n.d. M R Packer".

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

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