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Essex / Re: Stebbing Mill, Mill Lane
« on: Friday 15 June 12 10:14 BST (UK)  »
I know the bungalows at Bran End but did not realise your auntie Ett moved there from Mill Cottage.
You are right in thinking I have an older sister, Susan. My name is Andy and live about six miles up the road from wethersfield in Stambourne.
I agree with you that Stebbing has changed a lot, even I can remember four shops in the high street, one at Bran End and another at Collops Road as well as Four pubs!

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Essex / Re: Stebbing Mill, Mill Lane
« on: Friday 15 June 12 08:36 BST (UK)  »
Hello Neil,
I think your right we are very distantly related! I believe I can just about remember your great Aunt Ett living at the bungalow on the corner and seem to think that she suffered from poor eyesight in her later years. Would she have been living there up until about the very early 1960`s ?
I guess that your memories of town mill would have been in the days when it still operated by water power alone. there was no mains electric in the mill (or the mill house) until about 1960.
Like you I have happy memories of fishing for trout in the mill pool. We always knew it as "the horse pond" and guess that was probably the case in your time there too.

Hello Arty,
Yet another distant relation! As you will probably have worked out Percy was my great uncle and I can just about remember him too. I am pretty sure he lived about halfway down mill lane on the left and one of my earliest memories is of him giving me a threepenny piece.
I think Len always had happy memories of his younger days out on the lorry and remember him saying he would often take someone with him for company on his delivery's.
I know the iron bar you rescued from the the mill pool and if its as heavy as i remember you did very well to recover it!


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Essex / Re: Stebbing Mill, Mill Lane
« on: Thursday 14 June 12 14:30 BST (UK)  »
Now you have mentioned it, I seem to remember my father (Len Hynds) telling me about the windmill at bran End being burnt down in a gale. I may have this wrong but i think windmills have a brake to prevent the sails turning when they are at rest, and i seem to remember the story being that someone forgot to apply this brake and as the sails turned the mill gears the bearings become hot enough to start the fire.
You may also be interested to know that Ted Barrett was my great uncle, (Lens mother was Alice Maud Barrett).

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Essex / Re: Stebbing Mill, Mill Lane
« on: Monday 19 December 11 07:22 GMT (UK)  »
Yes i am one of the Hynds family, you have obviusly been doing your research! Thanks for the offer on the magazine articles, i have a few myself but may not have seen the ones you have.

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Essex / Re: Stebbing Mill, Mill Lane
« on: Friday 16 December 11 16:21 GMT (UK)  »
interested to see what you said.
My grandfather brought town mill stebbing in about 1932 and worked the mill with his brother until he retired (somewhere in the late 1950`s). My father then worked the mill until he too retired in 1997. He passed away in 1999 and the mill was then sold later that year. It has now been converted into a very nice house but still retains much of the original working gear including one set of "French Burr" stones.
Just for the record my great grandfather and my great great grandfather worked the mill as well! (although they did not live at the mill at that time).I think i am right in saying that the mill was owned by Henry Ruffel in my grandfathers younger days.
Hope this is of some interest to you.

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