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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 209
Crabtree Lane Mill. IV.
This mill, which stood on the site of the coal sidings in Falkner LIVERPOOL. *
Street (Crabtree Lane) about half a century ago was the most
perfect steam mill in Liverpool and its ; owner, Mr. ^8.
Stephen White, Appendix :
attained a considerable competence in its management. Mr. Lunt Their
writes :
" Mr/ White was a very enterprising and keen man, and about Immediate
the time of the outbreak of the Crimean War, 1854, Fairbairn, who
had been concerned in bringing out the then new dress in millstones
which caused them to cut shearwise, was employed by the War
Department
Successors.
to construct two floating mills for the use of our Army
and Navy. These did their work automatically, and were considered
the wonder of those days in milling. Mr. White at once saw his
opportunity and his man, and I think gave Fairbairn carfe blanche^
or thereabouts, to refit his mill ; with the result that steam was
installed instead of wind, and from the Moss Lake stream close by a
pool was made in which the condenser was cooled. The mill being
brought to the very front for the manufacture of baker's flour, gave
White's trade an impetus it never lost so long as he was able to give
his business personal supervision. His '
straws '
baker's flour for many years, and for long was unrivalled."
BooTLE Mills.
held sway as a
Bootle Watermill on the shore, a little beyond the Liverpool
boundary, survived the age of the Moores, and was finally utilised
as a paper mill ; the later windmill, erected beside it, being used
for corn. Reference has been made in an earlier Volume to a Text, IIL 293.
pioneer but unsuccessful attempt to work the old water-mill by
steam. Neither of these mills endured long after the opening of
the last century.*
* " To be sold by auction at Bootle Coffee House, near Liverpool, the windmill Liverpool Adver-
called Bootle Mill, situated upon the banks of the River Mersey, about three tiser, Aug., 1793.
miles from Liverpool, and 300 yards from the canal : also the scite of the Water-
mill there, house, garden, &c., and land extending to 18 acres. The premises
are held by lease under the Earl of Derby for a term of 49 years from December 25,
1792, at a reserved annual rental of ^120. The fall of water at the scite of
the mill is 37 ft or thereabouts, which is supplied from Bootle Springs, with
three cubic feet of water every second for 12 hours in 24, even in the driest season.
The weight of this supply is 187 lbs., which will overcome a resistance equal to
1,288 lbs,, and will work 1,500 spindles [if used as a cotton mill]. The windmill
works three pair of stones, and is in good repair. There are watercourses and
millponds annexed, and troughs lately made for conveying the water from Bootle
Springs to the watermill ; and the proprietors of the canal have agreed to permit
the owners of these premises the use of an overflow from the said canal 20 yds.
long, and \ of an inch lower than any other from the said canal. The water of
the springs is very pure, and of a proper quality for making fine paper, and the
situation of the land is a very agreeable one for accommodation for sea bathing,
and is already much resorted to by bathers. Fuller information from the Executors
of Mr. John Singleton."
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"To be sold all those mills called Bootle Mills, including both the water- Ibid., Sept., isor.
mill and the windmill, land, &c. Water-wheel Zl ft. in diameter : the watermill
lately used as a paper mill. The whole on lease from Lord Derby for a term of
which 39I years are unexpired."
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