- REXW-WIN-01-25
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Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Pages from a loose-leaf notebook - 1926 to 1929
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Assorted brief 'aide memoire' and more detailed notes on a variety of milling matters including: notes taken from books/papers and maps (e.g. 'Dynamics of Windmills' - J.A. Griffiths, the 'English Encyclopedia', 1802, Merian's 'View of London', 1638 and 'The Miller, 1900 and 1916); lists of milling journals, articles, reports and academic papers (including electricity generation); more detailed notes and drawings on the mills listed at 'Place access points' below; a June 1926 typed packing and kit list for a trip to Suffolk and expenses incurred; mileage and logbooks for a trip in June 1928 and again for Wailes' Easter trip to Anglesey in 1929; notes taken from a visit to the Sussex Archives Collection including an account of the relocation of an entire Brighton windmill in 1797; a list of Lancashire mills in working order; and an anecdote about an interaction between a miller and the King of Prussia.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Deed of covenant: Purchase Finance Company Ltd and F Leach & Sons Ltd, Wisbech (Cambridgeshire)
Includes agreement between F Leach & Sons Ltd and Millers' Mutual Association. 2 deeds of covenant.
F Leach & Sons Ltd, millers
Tower Mill, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
"Wisbech, Cambs.".
Unknown photographer
Part of James Venn Collection
General view from King's Lynn Rd with mill showing 8-armed spider but no sails.
Freese, Stanley (1902-1972), town planner and artist
Part of Small Donations
Unknown photographer
A description on the front of the postcard indicates that the photograph was taken before 1895.
Unknown photographer
Leach's eight-sailed tower mill, Wisbech
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Two sets of handwriting on the reverse. Rex Wailes' note reads, "Leach's Eight Sailed mill, Lynn Road, Wisbech. This [corn] mill was built on an old post mill mound. The sails were removed in 1896. It had originally 4 sails but by 1840 it had 8. When this change was made is not certain. Copy photo from A.A. Oldham, Mount Drive, Wisbech". The second set of handwriting is in pencil (underneath Rex Wailes' notes) and reads, "The Eight Sail Mill, Lynn Road, Wisbech. Taken before removal of sails in 1896. (Copy of original photo of course). Cap of mill demolished in summer of 1947".
Oldham, Arthur Artis
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
List of Fenland mills; list of Cambridgeshire watermill map locations; 2 reports on Bourn Post Mill; notes by T. B. Hunt; report on Great Chishill mill; Report on Steven's Mill and Great Chishill Mill; report on Leach's Mill, Wisbech.
"The Port of Wisbech Cambridgeshire"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
A view of the port of Wisbech showing ships in a wide canal, two post mills and one tower mill. Drawn by J.P.Hunter. Published by J.P.Hunter,Wisbech, February 1840. Sent as a calendar to Enid and Rex Wailes, Christmas 1947.
The white post mill is Webster’s mill and the black mill is Bell’s mill, both in Leverington Road.
Hunter, J P
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Photograph of an oval painting showing a river and townscape and a number of mills and churches. Signed JC Sargeant? 1848.
The white post mill is Webster’s mill (demolished between 1887 and 1895) and the black open trestle mill without sails is Bell’s mill (last known to be standing in 1846), both in Leverington Road.
Leach’s Mill, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
Three copies of handwritten text giving history of Wisbech windmills, each in separate ringbinder, illustrated by photographs and maps.
Oldham, Arthur Artis
"Mr H.C. Hughes' talk to Cambridge Photographic Club"
Part of Press Cuttings Collection
Cutting from 'Cambridge Daily News' about a speech given about windmills, including the presumed history of windmills.
Unknown photographer
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
An eight floor mill. The tower has been extended in height
The image must date from later than 1952, when the TV mast on top of the mill was installed, and earlier than 1963 (see WPAC-WIN-00086).
Unknown photographer