This photograph taken in the mid 1950s shows Elm View Mill in a bad state of repair. The notice above the door states ‘The public are warned not to approach this mill as the structure is in a highly dangerous condition’. Most of the joists of the upper floor and the roof timbers had rotted ...
Reference: WH1125
Note the spelling gaff on this 1900s photo postcard. It should say ‘Spring Shaws’, the name comes from a ‘Shaw’ meaning a thin but dense woodland strip of forestry grown as a wind-break and used in valleys and hill-tops alike.
Reference: WH1133
The lady standing in the doorway of number 6 Mill Street is Florence Louisa (nee Paige) Allen, who would have been 52 in 1921. She lived at 2 Mill Street from 1891 and was still there in 1939. The lady in the hat is her daughter Ellen (nee Paige) Whitmore who married Fred Whitmore in ...
Reference: WH1129
In the early 1880s, Elm View mill ceased operation as a flour mill, and was converted to drive a set of ram-pumps to pump water up to the high ground to the east of Spring Shaw wood where there had been constructed a large subterranean reservoir. From here water was fed to the town, the ...
Reference: WH1118
At this point, around the 1890s, the mill had been decommissioned and turned into a pumping station to pump water from a deep well in the aquifer to an underground reservoir on the hill above the mill. The wedge shaped structure to the right of the mill in front of the picket fence housed powerful ...
Reference: WH1115