Leach's Mill, Wisbech

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Leach family

Information on the Leach family and Leach's Mill, Wisbech, Norfolk. Includes information on the mills at Wisbech taken from "Wisbech Windmills" by A.A. Oldham and several print and internet sources. A family history of the Leach family is included, also mentioning the names Hart, Cropley, Crow, Hubbard, Day and Lake.

Leach, Nick

Webb milling family

A history of the Webb family of millers from the late 17th century to the late 19th century and a written piece on the different types of windmills found in England.

Valentine, David

"New order"

Cutting from 'Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser' describing the replacement of sails on the old mill in Lynn Road by a television mast.

"Wisbech Windmills"

Three copies of handwritten text giving history of Wisbech windmills, each in separate ringbinder, illustrated by photographs and maps.

Oldham, Arthur Artis

Cambridgeshire

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.

Leach's Mill

Pen and ink drawing with wash, M492 Leach's Mill, Wisbech, 22 miles NE of Peterborough. Tallest windmill in the country.

Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist

Wisbech, Cambs. Bk 27, No.35

General view from King's Lynn Rd with mill showing 8-armed spider but no sails.

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

Pages from a loose-leaf notebook - 1926 to 1929

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

Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925

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

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