Tower mill, Stock

a draft address/paper relating to the Newcomen Society and the emergence of the term, 'Industrial Archaeology' (pre 1970);
Thaxted Mill (30 November 1964);
Broxted Mill (24 July 1938);
an unidentified author's 'list of Post Mills In Essex that I know' addressed to 'Mr Wailes';
brief typed notes on mills at South Ockenden, Stock and Southminster (undated);
8 pages of notes taken from the 'Historic Monuments Commission of the Province of Quebec' (Proulx, 1928) and from the 'Legal Archives of Quebec'. The focus is on historic 'Banal' and 'Seignorial' mills of Canada, including those listed at 'Place access points' below as well as notes about several unindexed mills (a 'First known mill on the Island of Orleans', 'Windmill [or Banal Mill] Saint Famille','The Mill Pointe aux Trembles', 'Fleming Mill, Ville La Salle', 'The Banal Mill, Vinceloth Signeur, Cap Saint Ignace', 'The Banal Mill, Grondines', 'old windmills at Fort Erie, Niagara and Windmill Point, Prescott' and the 'Old Windmill Sandwich'. An unidentified mill at 'Saint Plerve' is also noted;
a brief note on the depiction of mills in art, 'This is not place to illustrate derelicts but mills when in their glory...' (undated);
labels for plates in a paper or book, most of the items depicted being described as, 'in the possession of the author', for example, 'Puzzle jug inscribed, 'The Miller, the house & the mill but where is the Donkey'.

Album XXIV

JSPB-NEG-24
Subseries
12 March 1961 - 15 April 1961

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

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

Tower mill, Stock

HCCC-11928
Item
15 June 1935

Part of H C Casserley Collection

On p.27 of H C Casserley's Visits Record Book.

Stock

JENN-6873
Item
1962-1972

Part of Peter Jennings Collection

Jennings, Peter

Stock

JENN-6872
Item
1962-1972

Part of Peter Jennings Collection

Jennings, Peter

"Stock, Essex"

REXW-IMG-02-016
Item
30 August 1931

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

"Essex Windmills - interesting report to County Council - The Upminster Mill"

CUTT-04982
Item
10 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "Grays and Tilbury Gazette". It was revealed in a special report at a Planning committee meeting that only two windmills out of 112 in Essex were in working order. Discussions considered the viability of restoring and preserving of windmills in Essex. The report was adopted by the Town and Country Planning Committee.

"An Essex Windmill to be Saved - Noted landmarks threatened"

CUTT-04968
Item
14 July 1937

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Cutting from "The Times" reporting that "Essex County Council has decided to take steps to save windmills in Essex from possible demolition". This was precipitated by a letter received from the Society of the Protection of Ancient Buildings expressing "concern at the rapid disappearance of windmills in Essex".