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Mills Of Birmingham

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Bristnall's End Mill.
Situated off present Livingstone Road, Birchfield. The mill had disappeared by the time Samuel Botham undertook his survey of Handsworth in 1794. Field Numbered "Windmill Piece.”
 
mikejee said:
Below is a supposed map of the Edgbaston mills from Terry Slater's book" Edgbaston. A History". He states that it was sued for grinding corn till the 1880s , then made into a farmhouse, but demolished recently. Also a photo of it as a farmhouse.

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Here is a photo of it in 1898, when it had presumably only recently ceased being a mill

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1890 Edgbaston Mill from Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society.

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Edgbaston Mill.

Survey by Ironbridge Archaeology in 2004.
Features dated in range from 17-20C.
In use by 1284. Noted again 1495. In 1700 described as 4 water com mills.
By c 1710, 5 grinding stones.
The 1913 OS Map of Moseley refers to the buildings as Edgbaston Mill Farm.
Mill was demolished between 1916 and 1925.

(Very detailed description of dig by Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society 2007.)
 
Can’t see a mention of King’s Mill, which according to Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society was about a mile from Saltley Mill, and not half a mile distant from two mills built by Thomas Holte.
 
Park Mill and Pool, Gravelly Hill, Birmingham, 1896, creator: Sir John Benjamin Stone.
Messrs Wills edge tool.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

Can we locate the viewing point ?

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