Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, workshop and turbine house
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Part of E M Gardner Collection
Move to EMGC-05-16.
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Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, workshop and turbine house
Part of E M Gardner Collection
Move to EMGC-05-16.
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A government-supplied Shorthand Notebook dated May to August 1967, containing notes from visits to a variety of industrial buildings and works throughout the UK but particularly in Somerset, Westmorland and Wales. Sites visited include breweries, foundries, rope-walks, collieries, quarries and slate, brick and granite-works. The contents are itemized on the front cover. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. Unindexed mills at Bovey Tracey, Pontlliw (referencing Penallt millstones) and Felindre, Swansea were also visited, as was the millstone quarry at Penallt, Monmouthshire.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Notes on Cumberland watermills. Also refers to the following mills/mines: Yewthwaite Mine, above Derwent; Langstrath Iron Furnace, Borrowdale; Botcherby; Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite; Abbey Mill, Brampton; Brundholme Mine (inc Blencathra); Shaddongate Mill, Carlisle; Catterlen; Dalemain Mill, Dacre; Dalston Forge; Distington; Dovenby Mill, Bridekirk; Driggith Mine; Force Crag Mine; Garrigill Smelt Mill; Warwick Bridge Mill, Hayton; Newmarket, Hesket; Barrow Mine, Keswick; Brandley Mine (Brandlehow Mine), Keswick; Keswick Copper Smelting Works; Stoneycroft Mine, Keswick; Stoneycroft Smelting Mill, Keswick; Loweswater Mines; Monkhill Mill; Goldscope Mine, Newlands; Penrith; Potts Ghyll Barytes Mine; Ruthwaite Barytes Mine; Sandbed Mine; Thornthwaite Mine; Threlkeld Mine; Mirkholme Mill, Uldale.
Notes on Westmorland watermills. Also refers to the following mills and mines: Skelwith Bridge (Ambleside) Watermill, Bolton (Appleby) Watermill, Comb Gill (Borrowdale) Watermill, Brougham Watermill, Sprint (Burneside) Watermill, Ewan (New Mill) (Burton) Watermill, Cliburn Mill, Clifton Mill, Hardshins Mine (Moor House)(Dufton), Greenside Lead Mine (Glenridding), Brigsteer (Helsington) Watermill, Hilton Watermill, Holme Mills, Hartsop (Lakes) Watermill, Low Hartsop Mine (Lakes), Levens Hall (Levens) Watermill, Flake Bridge Sawmill (Murton), Milness (Preston Richard) Watermill, Scordale Mines, Abbey (Shap) Watermill, Brackenber (Shap) Watermill, Crags (Shap) Watermill.
Bongate Mill and Castle, Appleby
This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1910 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.
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Conveyance of a water corn mill, Westmorland
One sheet of vellum measuring approx. 40 x 29 cm and bearing its original seal. On the reverse, "16 June 1612, Richard Langrigge & Wm Birkhead, Conveyance of Moietie of Water Corn Mill". The conveyance concerns land "in the said Countie of Westmorland & Commonlie called or known by the name of Mylnton, Mylne".
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