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General history to the left
Randalls specific to the right!
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2000 |
____2006 Visit of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh 17th November
____2006 Death of Sam Randall 19th August
____2006 Mill produces flour again, Randall's Tea Room opens
____2004 Engine house and chimney restoration completed
____2003 New wheel runs under water power
____2002 Topping out ceremony
____2001 Rebuilding begins
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Taylors Mill finally stops working 1935____
Astwick Mill ceases production 1922____
Kitchener family of Astwick buys Taylors Mill 1920____
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1900 |
____1998 Volunteer force begin clearing the debris
____1992 Stotfold Mill destroyed by fire
____1984 Sam Randall finally sells the Mill
____1966 Milling operations at Stotfold Mill cease
____1954 Diesel engine replaces steam power
____1902 New 4 storey brick building
____1900 John Randall dies
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Taylor gives up milling 1880____
Samuel Bowman buys Astwick Mill 1857____
Temporary repeal of the Corn Laws 1845____
Census records Taylor as "miller foreman" 1841____
Stotfold riot 1830____
Corn Bill passed; The Battle of Waterloo 1815____
Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar 1805____
Taylors Mill purchased by the Fordham family 1804____
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1800 |
____1897 New overshot wheel fitted
____1876 John Randall takes over Mill from Charles Vaughan
____late 1870's 65ft chimney built at the back of the Mill
____1869 Local Vaughan family buys the Mill
____1829 John Randall jnr. born in Stotfold
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Edmund Whitehead the miller buys Taylors Mill 1795____
Lease of "a watermill at Stadfold" sold 1789____
Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York 1739____
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1700 |
____1795 John Randall snr. born in Stotfold
____1765 Map confirms one "Upper" and one unnamed mill
____1707 Record of only two Stotfold mills
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Dodo becomes extinct 1680____
Great Fire of London 1666____
Great Plague of London 1665____
Christmas banned by Cromwell 1649____
Guy Fawkes arrested 1605____
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Record of a mill at Spinney 1540____
Dissolution of the monasteries 1536-1539____
Record of Richard Lorymer’s mill 1516____
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1500 |
____1519 Newnham manor listed without mention of a mill
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Edward IV bans cricket 1477____
Mention of John Wedewesson’s mill 1406____
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Wat Tyler killed during Peasants' Revolt1381____
Record of a Brayes Manor Mill 1376____
Black Death reaches England 1349____
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Mill is endowed to Newnham Manor 1220-1260____
4s 6d rent for 'mill at the ford' 1200-1220____
King John signs up to Magna Carta 1215____
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Murder of Thomas à Becket 1170____
Adrian IV becomes only English pope 1154____
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1000 |
____1086 4 water mills listed in the Domesday Book
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