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Rex Wailes
551 668
Description Rex Wailes
Date 1890 to 1970
Collection Rex Wailes
Catalogue Number 551 668
Category All Other
Scope and Content A collection of photographic prints of industrial buildings and associated sites in Scotland.
Archive History Donated to the SNBR and RCAHMS by Rex Wailes.
System of Arrangement The collection is arranged by site.
Related Material See also photographs taken by Rex Wailes in the Scottish National Buildings Record Collection. Also, the Rex Wailes Collection, held by the Mills Archive, Reading, https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb3132-rexw
Access Conditions There are no restrictions upon access.
Administrative History Rex Wailes (1901-86), engineer, author and molinologist. Following an engineering apprenticeship, Wailes worked first for Robey's of Lincoln, and then for the family firm of George Wailes and Company. From the 1920s he began recording the disappearing technology of water- and wind-mills, working with the Newcomen Society and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He published widely on the subject of mills, and on the wider subject of industrial archaeology: his books include: Tide Mills (1938?), Windmills in England: a study of their origin, development and future (1948), The English Windmill (1954), A Source Book of Windmills and Watermills (1979), A Source Book of the Industrial Past (1980).
Accruals No accruals are expected.
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