Somerset

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BT England

Somerset

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Somerset

  • UF Somersetshire

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Somerset

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Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.

Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.

Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.

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

Album of negatives (3)

Album of negative strips in various sizes, of windmills and watermills, views of London, and the 1968 SPAB Spring Mill Tour. The following mills are listed: Post mill, Bourn; Cattell's Mill, WiIllingham; Tower mill, Over; King's Mill, Shipley; Wicken Fen Mill, Wicken Fen; Watermill, Wroughton; Abbey Mill, Reading; Smock mill, Willesborough; Lower Mill, Woodchurch; Shepherd Wheel, Porter, Sheffield; Abbeydale Hamlet, Sheffield; Post mill, Ramsey; Outwood Post Mill, Outwood; Ashton Mill, Chapel Allerton; Stratford Mill, Blaise Castle Estate, Henbury.

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

Album of negatives (2)

Album of negative strips in various sizes, of windmills and watermills, views of London, and Stephen's trip to Abidjan and Ghana in January and April 1966. The following mills are listed: Ovenden's Mill, Willingdon; Wimbledon Windmill, Wimbledon Common; Grove's Mill, Coleshill; Smock mill, Meopham; Shiremark Mill, Capel; Stembridge Mill, High Ham; Lower Mill, Woodchurch; Lacey Green Windmill, Lacey Green; Duck End Mill, Finchingfield; Littleworth Mill, Wheatley; Tower mill, New Bradwell; Church Street Windmill, Bocking; Downs Mill, Bexhill; Alderford Mill, Sible Hedingham.

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

Scrapbook of mill cuttings, postcards and photographs

Scrapbook of magazine and newspaper cuttings on windmills and watermills in the UK including some pages from issues of Country Life. Postcards and photographs of UK and foreign mills, including a 1920s photograph of an Egyptian noria wheel. Many of the items have lost their adhesive to the pages. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 49.

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

Illustrations and artwork

A watercolour of High Ham mill; an illustrated poster advertising Niall's talk "The Damsel and the Spider" at the Malden & Coombe Civic Society; a wedding anniversary card; a thank you note from Brownies with a Greater London West County badge depicting Wimbledon Common Windmill.

Bristol Museums Mills Images

  • BMMI
  • Collection
  • 20th century

Images of UK mills, photographers unknown (some probably taken by museum staff).

Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives