Windmills

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Windmills

  • UF Windmill

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Windmills

3053 Archival description results for Windmills

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Mike Field Collection

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  • Collection
  • 1968 - 1979

Display boards from the Molinological Conference ('Molicon'), 1979. Copies of drawings of Wrawby post mill by C T G B, 1968. Three films:UK windmills inc Paxton and Bourne, 1968; Denmark windmills, May 1974; Blakedown Forge, Churchill, Worcestershire, July 1971.

Field, Mike

Research notebook - Northamptonshire and Suffolk

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

'Notes Watermills'

Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.

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

Research notebook for various mills, 1928 to 1929

A repurposed Army field message book labelled, "Bledlow Ridge, Summe Holiday June 1928, 1929 Easter in Anglesey" comprising: 5 pages of Rex Wailes' research notes, drawings and measurements from a visit to Bledlow Ridge Mill; 24 page narrative describing Rex Wailes' summer holiday (2 June to 13 June 1928) in which he toured a variety of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire windmills, meeting several millers, mill owners and old friends en route (and recording an open invitation from a Swedish vice-consul for Wailes to visit Sweden to examine its old mills); 27 page narrative describing Rex Wailes' tour of Anglesey over the Easter bank holiday (28 March to 1 April 1929) in which he inspected both wind and watermills, using paperwork forwarded to him by his father, to survey the number of derelict mills (including notes on a mill at Tre-Arddur Bay which he records as the last mill worked by wind on Anglesey).

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

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