Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough

REXW-IMG-01-156
Item
Before 1910

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Photograph of Watts Cross Mill, Hildenborough, Kent mounted by Stickells and Son, Cranbrook shows the mill with workers loading sacks into a horse cart. Notes on the reverse state it was built in 1812, worked until 1910 and demolished in 1961 - winded by hand chain - all wheels of wood but had an iron windshaft.

Unknown

Kent, Hildenborough

TYC-0023
Item
Early/mid 20th century

Part of Tony Yoward Collection

Unknown photographer

Watts Cross Mill, Hildenborough, Kent

KILL-34
Item
Early 1900s

Part of W Killick Collection

Worked until 1910. Demolished 1961.

Killick, W

Watt's Cross Mill

ANCK-10260
Item
c 1908 (probably later copy)

Part of Gordon Anckorn Collection

Poor quality photo, probable copy of original by G. Anckorn. Hildenborough.
Marked on back of photo as 'Hildenborough - Sevenoaks Weald (foot of Riverhill). Pulled down about 1963.'

Anckorn, Gordon

Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough

REXW-24859
Item
1903

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Unknown photographer

Union Mill changes to sails

UNIO-01-40-01
File
1920s

Part of Union Windmill Cranbrook Collection

Shows improvements made by Russell, John after inheriting the mill in 1919.

Unknown photographer

Pages from a loose-leaf notebook - 1926 to 1929

REXW-NOT-027
Item
1926

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough

BRBC-21309
Item
c 1933

Part of Bernard R Billings Collection

Part of Billings' unpublished manuscript. Full height photograph of a windmill at Hildenborough.

Billings, Bernard Richardson

Mill details and condition

SPAB-23661
Item
1929

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Mill details and condition including remarks and photo

"Hildenboro' Watts Cross, 1930"

JSPB-PHT-49-041
Item
1930

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Note on the reverse: "Hildenboro' Watts Cross, 1930".

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

Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough, Kent

KELL-63
Item
1930s

Part of Kelly Collection

Unknown photographer

"Hildenboro' Watts Cross, 1930"

JSPB-PHT-49-042
Item
1930

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Note on the reverse: "Hildenboro' Watts Cross, 1930".

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

Hildenborough, Edenbridge, and Broughton Street

CHET-130
Item
1930s

Part of Charles and John Chettleburgh Collection

Chettleburgh, Charles

"Watt's Cross Mill, Hildenborough; Kent"

REXW-IMG-02-034
Item
28 September 1930

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough

BRBC-12530
Item
1933

Part of Bernard R Billings Collection

Photograph of the exterior of Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough

Billings, Bernard Richardson

Watts' Cross Mill

WOOD-M984
Item
21 August 1937

Part of Karl Wood Windmill Sketches

Pen and ink drawing with wash, M984 Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough, 2 miles NW of Tonbridge Junction, 21/08/1937. Working at this date

Wood, Karl Salsbury (1888-1958), artist

Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough, working

HESS-0316
Item
13 May 1940

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #316

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough, in working order

HESS-1388
Item
13 May 1940

Part of H E S Simmons Collection

HESS catalogue #1388

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Watts' Cross Mill, Hildenborough

JACK-14795
Item
c 1947

Part of John Jackson Collection

Album of photographs including the Buckland family

JSPB-BIO-01
Item
1946 - 1951

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Whilst the album includes photographs of windmills, castles, churches, and other interests, additional photographs of importance to Stephen include his childhood home, himself and his brother Francis as children, his father Charles Buckland, his mother Jessie Hatch Flemming, and maternal grandfather Percy Flemming.
Non-mill photographs include: Cuddeson church; Appleton, Berkshire; Tenterden, Kent; Icklesham, Sussex; Appledore, Kent; Rye, Sussex; Cranbrook, Kent; Pevensey Castle, Sussex; Bodham Castle, Sussex; New Romney; Tonbridge Castle; Farnham Castle; Guildford Castle; Castle Motte, Ongar; Thaxted, Sussex; St Vulfran Church, Abbeville; St-Valery-sur-Somme; Rue, Somme; Saint-Riquier, Somme; Boulogne; Bruges; Ghent; Hampstead; Abbey Gate, Bury St Edmunds; Canterbury Cathedral; Washington Street, Hastings; Rye, Sussex; Westminster Bridge; Embankment; dismantled Dome and Skylon from Embankment.

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

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