Finding the source-looking for threads

The story so far.

During the research stage of this project when we were looking at the potential for 'A river runs through it', I visited the Kendal records office and the libraries local collection also the Armitt library in Ambleside.

Together with Audrey -the mill manager, Stuart the millwright, Bob Parkin one of the trustees and Jill Wesson the daughter of the late  Percy Dobson who formally owned and ran the Comb Mill at Milnthorpe as a horn comb works and then moved over to plastic, we visited the present working plastic comb mill. 

 

This initial research gave us [ Heron Corn Mill and myself]  the confidence to know that there was much to be revealed during this 12 mth project.

The project started the week of the 25th July, already Audrey and I  engaged with Beetham villagers on a hot sunny Saturday selling bags of flour milled at Little Salkeld  at the Annual Sports Day- telling them aboout the project and asking people if they had memories or photographs of  Heron Corn Mill or others. Yesterday Stuart and I explored the outfall from Killington Lake, the Bela River starts its life as Peasey Beck rising on Lambrigg Fell and flowing into Killington Lake. We made our way back down the lanes looking at possible sites for remnants of  past mills. John Somervell's book 'Water  powered mills of South Westmorland was our inspiration and source material for mill sites.