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
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