Quote Originally Posted by taffy View Post
Found these on my computer. Garston Old Mill and surrounding streets awaiting demolition, Sept 2006. Railway Street and surrounding houses were built on the infilled lower mill pond for Garston Mill.
Thanks, Taffy. I was in the old mill premises in the early Sixties as I wanted to see where the well was that had the datestone "1292." I believe I was shown the top of the well but could not see the date. Local historian Stanley Harris was of the opinion that 1292 was too early a date for any year to be expressed in Arabic numbers and that such dates only started to be expressed that way in the 1500's. The "1292" inscription though or just the knowledge that the mill dated back to Adam de Gerstan and the monastic lines is probably the inspiration for the title of the Garston and District Historical Society's monograph on Garston Mill entitled " The 800 years of Garston Mill", published Feb 2004 that you mentioned you have. I would very much like to get a copy of that book.



Chris