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210 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV.<br />

IV.<br />

KING'S MILLS,<br />

LIVERPOOL.<br />

28. Appendix :<br />

Their<br />

Immediate<br />

Successors.<br />

Spellow Mill.<br />

This mill, also slightly beyond Liverpool boundaries, existed till<br />

the early part <strong>of</strong> the last century. It stood near the mere at Walton,<br />

in the neighbourhood <strong>of</strong> Spellow House. In 1803, on this latter<br />

being <strong>of</strong>fered for sale, <strong>it</strong> was termed "Drysdale's Mill," and in 1813<br />

<strong>it</strong> occurred again as " Drysdale's Mill on Walton Breck." In 1810 <strong>it</strong>s<br />

lonely neighbourhood earned as unenviable a reputation as that <strong>of</strong><br />

"<br />

the Gallows Mills : On Saturday evening (October 29) a gentle-<br />

man on horseback was stopped by two men at Walton, near Spellow<br />

Mill ; they led his horse twenty yards up the narrow lane leading to<br />

the mill and robbed him <strong>of</strong> his watch and some silver " : and on<br />

December 17, the same year, a gentleman's servant was forced<br />

into the same lane and robbed, " the robbers then shook hands<br />

w<strong>it</strong>h the man and warned him not to leave the lane until they had<br />

got away." The mill, which was <strong>of</strong> the antique peg type, was burnt<br />

down in 1828.

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