Long Compton Mill
Long Compton Mill.
Image supplied by John Salmon
Long Compton Mill and House, 1941.
Image courtesy of C Tanner
Long Compton Mill with cattle, 1941
Image courtesy of C Tanner
John, Joan, and Douglas, 1941
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Long Compton Mill and House, 1900.
Image courtesy of C Tanner
Description of this historic site
Long Compton Mill, a watermill, dates to the Medieval period. It was in operation until the Imperial Period. It is located 1km north west of Long Compton and survives as a building and earthworks.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Recorded in 1086, and again in 1272. Has belonged to the Salmon family since c1810. Ceased working in the 1950s. A three storey stone building adjoining the mill house. A date-stone is inscribed ‘R.H.1758’, but the lower courses of the building appear to be older than this. All the machinery was renewed in 1870, including the internal high breast-shot waterwheel, which measures 4m diameter by 1.2m wide, and was fed from an iron penstock. Other machinery survives also.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Was there a Joan Salmon lived here in the 1930s, with 2 brothers? Grandparents called Herrick (Annie?) living in Saltley/Washwood Heath in Birmingham? Mrs Salmon had a brother who was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham?
Hi, I’m Christine ….Joan b 1921 did live at Long Compton Mill with her brothers John b 1923 and Douglas b 1928. Their mother was Ada Herrick ( my grandmother ) whose family were from Birmingham. …she was a daughter of Councillor Joseph Alfred Herrick and Mary Herrick. I have heard a story of a surgeon called Salmon from my father John but as he is deceased l can’t ask him. His father was John Martin Salmon who married Ada Herrick. The people in the picture are John Salmon and his wife Louisa Salmon ( John Martin Salmon parents) and son Burton.
Christine – it seems I am in the right place. My Mother Edith Cork knew Joan well and had much to do her grandmother Annie Herrick from the Congregational Church in their shop in Saltley. Then with Edith’s father dying in 1932 she came down to stay with Joan, John and Douglas on the farm only to break her ankle between a tractor trailer and a brick wall. She was put right in the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham where Mrs Salmon “had a brother who was an orthorpaedic surgeon”. What happened to Joan, do you know? She and Edith remained remained good friends I understand.
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