"BARROW MILLS. Sussex Bronze Age barrows reused as windmill-steads."
- SMDN-2024.0005
- Item
- 2024
Part of Small Donations
Vincent, Alex, author
"BARROW MILLS. Sussex Bronze Age barrows reused as windmill-steads."
Part of Small Donations
Vincent, Alex, author
Slides of Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey mills
Part of Jon Sass Collection
Slides of various mills around Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Surrey, and elsewhere.
Travis, Edward, millwright
Lease of a mill in St Mary of the Castle, Hastings
1 folded sheet measuring 50cm x 38cm, signed and sealed by Mary Dodson, and detailing the grant of a year's lease "of a Mill & in the Parish of St Mary of the Castle in Hasting for one year from Michas 1775. Rent £15". The lease is granted by Mary Dodson, widow, of Rye to Joseph Carswell, baker, of Hastings. The mill is leased together with, "the mill stones, wheels, coggs, staves, sweeps, running tackle and all other implements, utensils and appurtenances to the said mill, stable and ground..."
Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A Reporters' Notebook containing:
Northants: notes taken from 'Northants Notes & Queries, New Series, Vol.4, 1912-1920' relating to: a 1609 grant by James 1 of a post mill at Kettering; the history of an unindexed tower mill (located on the site of a former post mill on Rockingham Road, Kettering) which was demolished in 1893; 18th c. maps of Kettering showing the location of various mills and a 19th c. print showing a post mill at Peterborough; also notes about the post mill at Seaton, Rutland which was demolished in 1917 as well as the nearby watermill, Henry Royce being said to have worked at both mills as a boy.
Suffolk: research notes relating to Suffolk windmills including construction dates, operational status in 1926,1939 and 1955 and including the notable features listed in 'Subject access points' below.
Windmill restoration: eight pages of draft narrative rehearsing the demise of wind and watermills since the late 19th c. and extolling the efforts of John Russell to restore and preserve Union Mill, Cranbrook. The narrative rehearses the preservation efforts made by a number of local authorities (counties listed in 'Place access points' below) arguing that it should be essential for such work to be their responsibility.
Windmills still in operation: notes running from back-to-front in the notebook listing, 'How many still in use', which are 'Workable' and 'When used and why'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Chidham Farm work by Hampshire Mills Group
Part of Tony Yoward Collection
Unknown photographer
Chidham Farm work by Hampshire Mills Group
Part of Tony Yoward Collection
Unknown photographer
Chidham Farm work by Hampshire Mills Group
Part of Tony Yoward Collection
Unknown photographer
Chidham Farm work by Hampshire Mills Group
Part of Tony Yoward Collection
Unknown photographer
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Metal grave markers of the Medhurst family, St. Anne's Churchyard, Lewes.
Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher
Research material on various 19th century millers
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Typed transcriptions from various sources relating to Samuel Cubitt Cooke, William Catt, George Packham, Charles Hopkinson, James Wood, Charlotte Sarah Wood, Harriet Wood; Kelly's Directory entries of millers in Sussex.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Sussex, Wiltshire, Kent. The negative sleeves have been removed from their album, which is missing.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Sussex, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Only 48 of the 100 negatives have been labelled by Stephen, and of those 34 are mill related. The remaining 52 negatives also contain images of mills which are likely to be those described in Mill Research Notebook 27a.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Sussex, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Includes SPAB Mill Section visit to Herringfleet Mill and the reopening of Union Mill, Cranbrook.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent, Sussex and Hertfordshire.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of interior and exterior scenes of smock, tower, post mills and watermills in Kent, including those from the SPAB Wind and Watermills Tour of Sussex, 26 September 1959.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent and Sussex.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent and Sussex.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of smock, tower and post mills and watermills in Kent and Sussex.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Negatives of Stephen's visit to Sussex wind and water mills.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher