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1 82 1, when it was again burnt down. As late as 1830 this spot, not IV.
more than three-quarters of a mile from the Town Hall, was the ^\^rJSU"V^'
favourite and fashionable bathing resort, where, says Herdman, "the _ L
beauty of the shore was not to be surpassed at any modern watering 28. Appendix
place." The coffee-house, with its tea-gardens and bowling-green. Their
was kept at this date by a Dutchman, one Vandrie, whose name is Immediate
perpetuated in that of a neighbouring street. The open shore, Successors,
thronged, in Herdman's pretty drawing of the scene, with bathingmachines
and parties of holiday folk, is now covered by the Clarence
Dock.
"Townside Mill," nearer Liverpool still than any of the others,
in 1785 overlooked the "intended new gaol," subsequently "The
French Prison." On June 29, 1789, the Liverpool papers reported
a fatality here :
" On Saturday, the 27th inst., a violent storm of rain
and hailstone passed over the town, accompanied with the most
awful and tremendous thunder and lightning ever remembered.
Great damage was caused in the town, all in the space of a quarter
of an hour. At the Tmvnside Mill belonging to Mr. Humphrey
Green, situate near the new jail, great damage has been done. The
lightning shivered the upper shaft and proceeded down the sack
chain to the upper working floor, where it forced out the whole of a
leaden casement. It then got to the lower working floor, where it
overturned several large iron weights, forced out another leaden
window, and made its passage through that floor into some rooms
below which are occupied by the miller's family as a dwelling. In
one of these, used as a common sitting-room, a young man was
thrown against the grate. In the next room were two children, one
of whom received a stroke in the eye, and they were both nearly
suffocated by the sulphurous vapour. In another room was a girl
12 years old, daughter of Mr. Green, who was instantly struck dead.
The window of this room and the next were materially damaged and
a hole made through the door. The son of Mr. Green, in attempting
to get the children out, was twice repulsed by the sulphurous
vapour before he could succeed.— It now appears that it was not Mr.
Green, the owner of the mill, who lived there and whose daughter
was killed, but Robert Winstanley, a poor miller, who has suffered
repeated misfortunes."
Lime Street Mills.
Upon the long ridge of high land extending along the heath from
ancient Eastham southwards were erected several mills, the sites of
which are now covered by Lime Street Station and its approaches.
Five in line, on the site of Duncan or Hotham Street, overlooking
the site of St. George's Hall, appear in Perry's map of 1768.
"
Tyrer's Mill," one of the oldest, and the only one then in Liver-
pool built in the antique peg style, was doubtless that erected in
1689, as already stated. Tyrer's Mill verged on the north side of
Copperas Hill, where subsequently was erected the Roman Catholic
Cathedral. In 1 744 occurs mention in the town's-book of " Benjamin
Tyrer's house, mill, and field, next to and west of the White Mill