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As I should think Duddeston Mill would be the most interesting one to write about as way back in the past I have a family connection.
The long wall which cut the railway of from the street in Vauxhall that we use to climb over to play which I now know was a stupid thing to have done was where
Duddeston Great Pool was that drove the Mill it stood on the banks of the River Rea where since 15th century there has been a Mill there.
In the 1950’s all trace of it had gone but if you knew were to look you could picture were it had been, the pool was drained in the 1800’s it was were the goods yard was were I use to play, the mill buildings were kept and used as warehouses for the Saw Mill and used up till about the 1880’s
The mill was rebuilt in 1570 near the one that was there in 1530
Edward Holt of Duddeston owned or leased 3 flour mills in Duddeston one was called the Manorial Mill which is the one I am talking about which was leased to Samuel Farmer who’s daughter Mary married Samuel Galton.
Samuel Galton was a Quaker and attended the meetings the Quakers held in Digbeth and in town.
Farmer and Galton were Gun-makers in Steelhouse Lane which was the reason he was threw out of the Quaker movement which got him quite mad forcing him to write a long articles in the Birmingham press of the time justifying his reason for the arms trade (which is to long to go into here but the info is available on the web)
Nicholas Juxon (my relative) and Brass founder had shares with Galton in the Copper Rose Company and was a straight laced Quaker who had a factory in Town by the Meeting House in Cherry Street which was so called as it was lined with Cherry Trees
From the Orchards of the 17th cent
In 1777 Galton who was disowned by his family took out a lease so he owned more land around the mill this was where he built his great Mansion Dudderston House and the Mill was flourishing, grinding and polishing gun barrels, rapier and sword blades.
The family he married into the Farmers were ironmongers so the Mill was kept on the go as rolling mills for the steel and sometimes even rolling silver for the jewellery quarter
Duddeston house was once on the area by Saltley Gas works and for many years it was used as a school Saint Anne’s
The Mill in the 1800 went back to being a corn mill as most of them did with the advancement of machinery and by that time the Evans family were tenants and round about 1830’s the lake was drained and the old mill was no more
In 1855 just next door to Vauxhall railway station was a pub called the Galton Arms
The long wall which cut the railway of from the street in Vauxhall that we use to climb over to play which I now know was a stupid thing to have done was where
Duddeston Great Pool was that drove the Mill it stood on the banks of the River Rea where since 15th century there has been a Mill there.
In the 1950’s all trace of it had gone but if you knew were to look you could picture were it had been, the pool was drained in the 1800’s it was were the goods yard was were I use to play, the mill buildings were kept and used as warehouses for the Saw Mill and used up till about the 1880’s
The mill was rebuilt in 1570 near the one that was there in 1530
Edward Holt of Duddeston owned or leased 3 flour mills in Duddeston one was called the Manorial Mill which is the one I am talking about which was leased to Samuel Farmer who’s daughter Mary married Samuel Galton.
Samuel Galton was a Quaker and attended the meetings the Quakers held in Digbeth and in town.
Farmer and Galton were Gun-makers in Steelhouse Lane which was the reason he was threw out of the Quaker movement which got him quite mad forcing him to write a long articles in the Birmingham press of the time justifying his reason for the arms trade (which is to long to go into here but the info is available on the web)
Nicholas Juxon (my relative) and Brass founder had shares with Galton in the Copper Rose Company and was a straight laced Quaker who had a factory in Town by the Meeting House in Cherry Street which was so called as it was lined with Cherry Trees
From the Orchards of the 17th cent
In 1777 Galton who was disowned by his family took out a lease so he owned more land around the mill this was where he built his great Mansion Dudderston House and the Mill was flourishing, grinding and polishing gun barrels, rapier and sword blades.
The family he married into the Farmers were ironmongers so the Mill was kept on the go as rolling mills for the steel and sometimes even rolling silver for the jewellery quarter
Duddeston house was once on the area by Saltley Gas works and for many years it was used as a school Saint Anne’s
The Mill in the 1800 went back to being a corn mill as most of them did with the advancement of machinery and by that time the Evans family were tenants and round about 1830’s the lake was drained and the old mill was no more
In 1855 just next door to Vauxhall railway station was a pub called the Galton Arms
