Windmills

MUGG
Collection
1900s-1930s

Photographs of English windmills. Four pastel drawings by P B Adnams, 1926, showing Upton Mill, near Ryde, Isle of Wight; Peg Mill, Ashurst, Sussex; Smock Mill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire; Peg Mill, Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire.

Muggeridge, William Burrell (1884-1978)

Research notebook for various mills, 1928 to 1929

REXW-NOT-001
Item
June 1928 to April 1929

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

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

Photographs

JKMC-FOL-1192
File
20th century

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

"Notes on Bucks Windmills"

REXW-WIN-03-07
File
1960

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

New Bradwell Mill, Buckinghamshire, cap and sails

JKM001-01-17
Item
No date

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

View of cap and sails

New Bradwell Mill, Buckinghamshire

JKM001-01-18
Item
No date

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

General view

Brill, Buckinghamshire

REXW-IMG-01-282
Item
No date

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.

Holmer Green, Bucks

REXW-IMG-01-230
Item
1925

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.

Tarrant, Kenneth J

Holmer Green, Bucks

REXW-IMG-01-229
Item
1925

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
On reverse:- 'Ancient tower mill at Holmer Green, near High Wycombe, Bucks.
Built of rubble. Arrangement for turning cap very primitive. Two pairs of stones, underdriven, all wooden gears.
Signed K.J.T. 1925'

Tarrant, Kenneth J