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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

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