Mill history from @mookster report
in the mid to late 1800s the mill was owned and run by the Burton family and then at some point it was sold on to the Taylor family who lived in the house and worked the mill. The last occupant, Norman Taylor, died in 2011 and that's when the house became abandoned.
History on the place is limited but we also came across some letters in garage from the h.m.s Alaunia I found a few things online that I asume is the same ship.
Alaunia was built by John Brown & Company in Scotland to augment the transatlantic passenger fleet of the Cunard Line. The ship entered service in July 1925 and was primarily employed on the Canadian route running from Southampton to Quebec and Montreal during the warm weather months and Halifax during the winter. She was one of a number of so-called intermediate liners built with fuel economy in mind. Designed with a single stack and straight stem bow with four passenger decks, the ship was propelled by two screws powered by four double reduction geared steam turbine engines that gave her a service speed of fifteen knots. Safety features included twelve watertight compartments divided by eleven bulkheads and twenty-eight lifeboats.
In August 1939 Alaunia was taken over by the Royal Navy for service as a troop transport and served in this capacity until 1944 when she was sold to the Royal Navy and refitted as a base repair ship at Gibraltar. Alaunia was sold for scrap and subsequently broken up in 1957.
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The explore was chilled and easy one it's always nice to have a bando adjacent to a public footpath even if there are snooping eyes you could just be another walker enjoying the countryside, this was our first stop of what ended up being a five day exploring trip and also ended with another small grain mill
after quickly finding access to the house we first came across the beautiful retro kitchen that I absolutely loved! Cant get over how stunning they looked back then.
The all metal cabinets had an airline feel to them so nice to see something not just horrible vernier
The rest of the house was fairly empty baring a few rather nice fireplaces and a nice bath
We then proceeded to the mill part of the building
A few remaining bits of old machinery
We then headed to the outbuildings one was empty the garage was full of pallets of books
Then we found this box of damp letters we had a good rummage and carefully opened a few unfortunately I couldn't really read what was on them and many were faded by damp its a real shame they wasn't kept dry and preserved
I tried finding records of ship crew without any luck hopefully they made it back home once the war was over would be sad to think the last letters from a sailor are just left to rot away
Old bible
Thanks for looking
in the mid to late 1800s the mill was owned and run by the Burton family and then at some point it was sold on to the Taylor family who lived in the house and worked the mill. The last occupant, Norman Taylor, died in 2011 and that's when the house became abandoned.
History on the place is limited but we also came across some letters in garage from the h.m.s Alaunia I found a few things online that I asume is the same ship.
Alaunia was built by John Brown & Company in Scotland to augment the transatlantic passenger fleet of the Cunard Line. The ship entered service in July 1925 and was primarily employed on the Canadian route running from Southampton to Quebec and Montreal during the warm weather months and Halifax during the winter. She was one of a number of so-called intermediate liners built with fuel economy in mind. Designed with a single stack and straight stem bow with four passenger decks, the ship was propelled by two screws powered by four double reduction geared steam turbine engines that gave her a service speed of fifteen knots. Safety features included twelve watertight compartments divided by eleven bulkheads and twenty-eight lifeboats.
In August 1939 Alaunia was taken over by the Royal Navy for service as a troop transport and served in this capacity until 1944 when she was sold to the Royal Navy and refitted as a base repair ship at Gibraltar. Alaunia was sold for scrap and subsequently broken up in 1957.
Allied Warships of WWII - Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Alaunia - uboat.net
The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat. This section includes over 21.000 Allied Warships and over 11.000 Allied Commanders of WW2, from the US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian...
The explore was chilled and easy one it's always nice to have a bando adjacent to a public footpath even if there are snooping eyes you could just be another walker enjoying the countryside, this was our first stop of what ended up being a five day exploring trip and also ended with another small grain mill
after quickly finding access to the house we first came across the beautiful retro kitchen that I absolutely loved! Cant get over how stunning they looked back then.
The rest of the house was fairly empty baring a few rather nice fireplaces and a nice bath
We then proceeded to the mill part of the building
A few remaining bits of old machinery
We then headed to the outbuildings one was empty the garage was full of pallets of books
Then we found this box of damp letters we had a good rummage and carefully opened a few unfortunately I couldn't really read what was on them and many were faded by damp its a real shame they wasn't kept dry and preserved
I tried finding records of ship crew without any luck hopefully they made it back home once the war was over would be sad to think the last letters from a sailor are just left to rot away
Old bible
Thanks for looking
