A scrapbook-style album containing photographs, newspaper cuttings and ephemera on mills in Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Peterborough, Somerset, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire.

Negatives of windmills in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

Agreement for sale of basic datum by J T Parnham & Sons to the Purchase Finance Company Ltd.

Deeds, minutes, correspondence, cuttings, photos and ephemera relating to the mill.

A 'spring folio', binding together loose pages comprising 'Windmill Notes, compiled from various sources by T.B. Paisley'. The folio is divided into the following sections: 'English Windmills. Arranged by Counties' and 'Foreign Windmills' (USA and France). The folio covers the counties listed at 'Place access points below' with brief details of selected post, tower and smock mills there and the date visited.

A government-supplied Shorthand Note Book labelled, 'Rex Wailes. No Mills. 1963. Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester' with notes on a variety of topics including:
Lecture series: Notes on talks given to: the Northampton Natural History Society (19 March 1963); the Nonsuch & Ewell Antiquarian Society (26 March 1963); in Canterbury (6-7 April 1963). These were seemingly given to generate support for forthcoming survey-work. The Canterbury notes also include observations on the Kent mills listed at 'Place access points' below. Draft letters to those attending/organising these events also feature, including one with respect to a proposed visit to 'Pilgrim's College'.
Nottinghamshire pumping stations: Notes on pumping stations at Bestwood, Papplewick, Boughton, near Ollerton, and Basford, with reference to the relevant manufacturers (e.g. Ashton Frost and Hathone Davy). Also contains a list of mills in the Southwell area of Nottingham, focusing on the River Greet and Dora Beck.
Canals: Notes taken at Manchester Public Library on surveys of the Greater Manchester/Lancashire canal network and the rivers serving them.

Notes on Nottinghamshire watermills. Also refers to the following mills: Blyth Mill; Bobber's Mill; Flint Mill, Burton on Trent; Old Mill, Cuckney; Darlton; Edingley; Edwinstowe; Mansfield; Matlock Mill, Mansfield; Mansfield Woodhouse; Bark Mill, Mansfield; Reed's Mill, Mansfield; Various, Nether Langwith; Watermill, Norwell; Oldcoates; Ordsall; Papplewick; Shireoakes; Wallingwells.

Notes on Lincolnshire watermills. Also refers to the following mills: Aby; Ashby-by-Partney; Auburn; Pumping wheel, Belton; Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe; Bourne; Branston; Caister; Carlton; East Drayton; Hagworthingsham; Le Tall Mill, Lincoln; Thorseby.