"Grants for historic buildings - Castle, Halls, and WIndmills"
- MEYE-19104
- Item
- 3 July 1956
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
The Times
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"Grants for historic buildings - Castle, Halls, and WIndmills"
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
The Times
Old Lode Mill, Lakenheath (smock mill)
Part of Richard Hills Collection
Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Lakenheath Old Lode by the Little Ouse River showing wind, steam and oil pumps standing together.
Reid, Douglas Gavin (1881-1934)
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Fantail, Elmer's Mill, Woolpit
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Fantail, Elmer's Mill, Woolpit
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Showing painters in cradle. Woolpit post mill, Suffolk
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Fantail, Elmer's Mill, Woolpit
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Notebooks on Lincolnshire windmills
Part of Harry Meyer Collection
Two notebooks, labelled "Part I" and "Part II", containing detailed observations of Lincolnshire windmills. The second notebook additionally contains observations on some Cambridgeshire and Suffolk windmills. The dates of the mill visits correspond with the negatives in sub-series MEYE-NEG-04, MEYE-NEG-10, and MEYE-NEG-14.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
A report for Suffolk County Council on Holton Post Mill examining the mill's: sails; fan, framing and carriage; substructure and buck. The report concludes that public access should be prohibited pending the recommended programme of repair works due to the unsatisfactory condition of certain aspects of the structure. An estimate of £8,600 is given for the repair work (including the replacement of two stocks).
Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright
House conversion, Fort Green Mill, Aldeburgh
Part of Frank W Gregory Collection
Converted 1902
Thorpness " The House in the Clouds"
Part of Ken Preece Collection
Preece, Ken, photographer
Post mill, Parham, stone floor
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Post mill, Parham, stone floor
Ashley, Hallam (1900-1987), photographer
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Pocket notebook - Cambridgeshire windmills -1925
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Seandar diary for 1925 measuring 9.5 cm x 15 cm recording an 8 day tour of windmills, most of which located in Cambridgeshire. Planning notes for the trip list mills to be visited each day (as well as recommended inns in which to dine/stay).
Notes are made for the mills listed in 'Place access points' below, occasionally accompanied with dimensions and drawings. Mills which have been demolished are also recorded. A list of those mills not visited is given at the back.
Unindexed mills visited include Polton Mill, Shepreth End post mill, a tower mill at Bradley and the remains of tower mills at Chesterton, Boxworth and March.
Mills at Histon, Waterbeach, Yelling, Fen Drayton, Somersham, Warboys, Susards Farm, Madingley and St John's Highway are marked 'non-est'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.
Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.
Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Collection of undated research notes on:
Also a bundle of loose notes mostly focusing on Suffolk mills, some being undated, those that are ranging in date from 6 October 1928 to 29 April 1932.
T.B. Paisley's 'Windmill Notes'
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A 'spring folio', binding together loose pages comprising 'Windmill Notes, compiled from various sources by T.B. Paisley'. The folio is divided into the following sections: 'English Windmills. Arranged by Counties' and 'Foreign Windmills' (USA and France). The folio covers the counties listed at 'Place access points below' with brief details of selected post, tower and smock mills there and the date visited.
Paisley, Thomas Brownlee (1916-1980)