Post mill, Great Hormead

MEYE-NEG-08
Subseries
24 May 1926 - 20 May 1958

Negatives of windmills in Hertfordshire. Images from this subseries were used in "Windmills in Hertfordshire: new edition" (Smith, Arthur C, 1972).

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

Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925

REXW-NOT-026
Item
June 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

Great Hormead mills, and Arkley

CHET-014
Item
1930s

Part of Charles and John Chettleburgh Collection

Chettleburgh, Charles

"Hormead"

JSPB-PHT-09-032
Item
1953

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Post mill, Great Hormead following its collapse.

Wilson, Graham Christopher, miller and millwright

Album of photographs windmills in England

JSPB-ALB-21
File
1959 - 1960

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Photographs taken from negatives created by Peter Pearce and B. R. Billings. They appear to have been in the possession of SPAB at the time of Stephen developing them. Peter Pearce's photographs of predominantly Sussex, with some in Essex, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey, taken between 1925 and 1936. B. R. Billings' photographs were taken between 1913 and 1920.

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

Post mill and Smock mill, Great Hormead, Hertfordshire

REXW-IMG-05-266
Item
1925

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

"Hormead, Herts, 1925 ."

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

Hertfordshire

REXW-MIL-02-14
File
1938 - 1979

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Recollection of the windmills at Great Hormead; Report on and estimate of repairs for Little Hadham Mill, 1979, per David Nicholls.

Photographs

JKMC-FOL-1161
File
1959-1983

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

showing post mill with tower mill without cap and sails on left

HESS-0262
Item
25 March 1932

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #262, taken from a diferent angle to 1106639.

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Great Hormead

JENN-7021
Item
1962-1972

Part of Peter Jennings Collection

Jennings, Peter

Essex Windmills Photographs

SMDN-19203
File
1961-1962

Part of Small Donations

Laser copies of photographs of Essex windmills taken in 1961 and 1962.

Puttock, Brian

Great Hormead smock and post mills

PALM-B-003
Item
No date

Part of W H Palmer Collection

Exterior view of post and smock mill

Palmer, William H

The Mills,Gt (Great) Hormead

WPAC-WIN-01414
Item
1918 or earlier

Part of Watlington Postcard and Art Collection

This copy of the postcard indicates that a 1/2d stamp is required. The postage rate for postcards rose to 1d in 1918, so the image presumably does not date from later than that year.

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