Millwrights

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280 Archival description results for Millwrights

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Articles of partnership for Oldham, Amory and Booth, millwrights, Kingston upon Hull

2 sheets of vellum measuring approx. 79 cm x 64 cm, comprising the articles of partnership between William Oldham, Joseph Gilby Amory and John Booth and signed and sealed by all three partners. The partnership carried on the trade of Millwrights, Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders and Bone Mill Manufacturers in Kingston upon Hull and had been formerly known as Oldham, Amory and Smith.

Bundle of papers relating to The Black Windmill, Woodnesborough

The bundle relates to the Black Mill, Woodnesborough which burned down in 1885 and features miscellaneous accounts, cheques, receipts, and bills, many of which concern mill owner, Henry Famariss, and his insurance claim following the fire. Notable documents include: an undated inventory of the contents of Black Mill; a lease (and counterpart lease) dated 30 August 1862 between Eliza Oliver and Stephen West for the hire of various premises, including Black Mill at Woodnesborough and a post mill at St. Mary the Virgin, Sandwich, Kent; a lease of the same properties between Henry Famariss and Francis Billing (miller) dated 15 July 1883 (together with a further draft lease dated 1884) ; a schedule of deeds to property owned by Henry Famariss dated 17 April 1878; a statement by Thomas Richard Holman of Holman & Collard, Canterbury, millwright, regarding his knowledge of the Black Mill as, "one of the best of its kind in the count[r]y" and estimating the cost of restoring it; W.C. Simmons' builder's specification and report on the Black Mill, Woodnesborough, dated 6 March 1885 providing estimates of value and describing the dimensions of the mill prior to its destruction by fire ("a very excellent and powerful one of its kind one of the best in the neighbourhood"); Henry Famariss' claim for £900 under his insurance policy with the Midland Counties Insurance Company.

Abstract of title to a windmill and bakehouse at Herne Bay

12 pages of paper measuring approximately 41 cm x 34 cm tracing brothers, Charles and Edmund Charles', title as 'coheirs in gavelkind' to the property of their sister, Elizabeth Stanley, who died without issue in 1868. The document traces title back to the purchase of land by Edward Charles and John Thorp[e] from Sir Henry Oxenden 'upon which they had lately erected and built a Windmill' and to an additional parcel of land 'part of the waste of the Lord of that [Reculver] Manor' and to which they were admitted as tenants on 20 October 1824. The document recites that Edward Charles and John Thorp[e] had 'for sometime then past carried on the trade or business of Millers jointly and in copartnership at [the] parish of Herne' but that in July 1829, had decided to dissolve the partnership. Having agreed that Edward Charles should buy John Thorp[e]'s share (including the windmill and all fixtures, machinery and stock-in-trade), two arbitrators were appointed to make final Awards as to valuation (one of whom being John Penn, millwright, of Deptford). Edward Charles' will of 23 August 1850 describes him as residing at Reculver Villa. Dispositions under the will include the Herne Bay mill and bakehouse in favour of his sons Edward and Charles and his daughter, Eliza. Further recitals are made as to the settlement reached regarding Eliza's entitlements under her father's will upon her marriage to Henry Stanley of 25 Upper Gloucester Place, Dorset Square, London.

Armfield Drawings

  • ARMF
  • Collection
  • 1870s - 1920s

Engineering drawings of milling machinery. Ledgers detailing sales of wire mesh to mills for dressing machines.

Joseph J Armfield & Co Ltd, engineers

Smock mill, Aldington

Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Photograph of a windmill at Aldington. Photograph is dated 1877 and appears posed with people in front of and on the mill.

Billings, Bernard Richardson

Vincent Pargeter Collection

  • PARG
  • Collection
  • 20th century - 2015

Drawings, documents and images from Vincent Pargeter's millwrighting career.

Pargeter, Vincent G (1943-2015), millwright

Research notebook, 1925, 1938 and 1962

A partially-filled technical notebook featuring notes, drawings and measurements for 'Cranbrook Mill' with a focus on the 'cannister head', striking gear, windshaft, weatherboarding, curb and fan. The drawings include a cross-section showing the 'framing of one side of tower - 4th floor'. There are also undated notes on 'Stanstead Mill' with notes [possibly from the miller] on how to dress stones.
Notes from September 1938 detail a visit to 'Stanton Mill' as well as very detailed notes taken following a visit to Mr John Smith at 'Holton Mill'. These notes appear to be taken from Mr Smith's recollections of numerous mills, millers and millwrights in the area, (e.g. Yoxford, Tunstall, Theberton, Snape) as well as further afield (e.g. Edenbridge, Outwood and Patcham).
A final single page of notes related to a visit to 'Polegate' on 20 March 1962.

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

Research notebook for Norfolk, 1927

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Norfolk 1927" containing notes taken from a four-day tour of over 30 Norfolk windmills. The notes contained within the bound section of the notebook are brief (only 26 pages in all, the remainder of the bound notebook being blank). However, a self-addressed envelope at the rear of the notebook contains 19 pages of Wailes' narrative account of each day of the tour, written up from his lodgings each night and including notes of his encounters with two millwrights, Robert Martin and Dan England, as well as various millers and mill owners. Also at the rear of the notebook are three single sheets of notes including an account of the raising of the windshaft at Billingford Common Mill, near Diss. Identifiable mills visited which feature in Wailes' narrative are listed in "Place access points" below.

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

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