St Olave's Mill, Fritton

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St Olave's Mill, Fritton

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St Olave's Mill, Fritton

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St Olave's Mill, Fritton

  • UF Priory Mill
  • UF Pony Mill

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St Olave's Mill, Fritton

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Pages from a loose-leaf notebook - 1926 to 1929

Assorted brief 'aide memoire' and more detailed notes on a variety of milling matters including: notes taken from books/papers and maps (e.g. 'Dynamics of Windmills' - J.A. Griffiths, the 'English Encyclopedia', 1802, Merian's 'View of London', 1638 and 'The Miller, 1900 and 1916); lists of milling journals, articles, reports and academic papers (including electricity generation); more detailed notes and drawings on the mills listed at 'Place access points' below; a June 1926 typed packing and kit list for a trip to Suffolk and expenses incurred; mileage and logbooks for a trip in June 1928 and again for Wailes' Easter trip to Anglesey in 1929; notes taken from a visit to the Sussex Archives Collection including an account of the relocation of an entire Brighton windmill in 1797; a list of Lancashire mills in working order; and an anecdote about an interaction between a miller and the King of Prussia.

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

Suffolk

Negatives of windmills in Suffolk.
661: 1 glass plate negative and lantern slide.

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

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

"STILL WORKING"

Illustration in the 'Lowestoft Journal' showing the drainage mill at St. Olaves is still in working order.

"A footpath by the Waveney"

Photo in the 'Eastern Daily Press' covering the enquiry into public rights-of-way along the footpath beside the River Waveney, which passes St. Olave's Mill.

St Olave's Mill, Fritton

Photograph of the side of Priory Mill (also known as St Olaves Mill and Pony Mill), showing the windpump in decline as the sails are missing along with the stocks, and the fantail is starting to deteriorate.

Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller

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