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206 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING. VOL. IV.
IV. which they were not bound [by the terms of their tenure] to do,
^^j!j^^^j^^^^' LIVERPOOL. although they had agreed to keep their original mill in repair";
wherefore they desired to be exempt
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Their
Immediate
Successors.
from rebuilding the said timber
corn mill. On condition that they agreed to maintain the other
two mills, they were exempted accordingly.
In 1771 it was "ordered that the mayor and bailiffs let the
mill called Brownlow Hill Mill and two small houses belonging
thereto, falling into the corporation's hands, for the best terms they
can get, but not to let it for any term longer than from year to year.
Joseph Brooks to have the preference offered him, and to be let clear
of all leys, taxes, and repairs." It was already determined to take the
mill down, hence the limitation to an annual tenancy only; but it was
not till 1779 that it was agreed, "in order to remove the nuisance of
Brownlow Hill Mill, Ralph Astley, the occupant, be at liberty at his
own expense to take down and remove and dispose of the materials
of the said mill." Astley apparently saw no profit in the speculation,
and in 1792 the corporation announced— "To be sold by auction
the materials of a windmill situate upon the south side of Mount
Pleasant, behind the Workhouse, to be pulled down by the purchaser."
Cathedral Mount Mills.
Three windmills stood on the plateau alongside the huge stone
quarry, known then as Zion Mount, later as St. James' Mount, and
now as Cathedral Mount, whereon is to be erected Liverpool Cathedral
overlooking the cemetery in the old delph. The public pleasurewalk
or promenade on the mount, planted with an avenue of trees
and affording a charming prospect of the river, the meadows of
VVirral and the Welsh hills in the distance, had at its south end a
windmill used for making linseed
the second of the mills on the
cake and oil and it was to ; avoid
mount from being converted to
a similar undesirable purpose that in 1777 the corporation decided
"
that the mayor and committee purchase at a fair price the windmill
and premises on Quarry Hill from Mr. Drinkwater, to prevent its
convert it to some use that
being purchased by others who might
might be detrimental to the public walk." The earliest allusion to
"
these mills seems to occur in 1723, when Edward Appleton proposes
to lay out a great sum of money in building upon and improving a
piece of land which, together with the mill and buildings on Quarry
Hill, had been formerly ordered [to be leased] to him and John
Livesey." In 1766 it was Thomas Appleton's mill, and in 1782 is
mention of " Appleton's mill and bowling-green at the top of Duke
Street." In 1805 the newspaper notes the death, at his residence.
Quarry Hill, of "Mr. Edward Haighton, a truly Honest Miller";
who, alas ! had only recently been a bankrupt.
Bevington Bush Mills.
In 1768 three windmills stood here in close proximity
to the
rural Scotland Road, a fourth being added later. On December 27,
1790, it was reported that "in a high gale on Thursday the top