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From a comment by James McCrone that 4 cottages were built on the site of the mill |
the image predates the MER but shows the tracks of the
horse tramway - the coming of the MER saw many changes
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SSS May 1768 47
dated 28 Jul 1765;Edwd Christian junr (Beamaughague) + wife Margaret als Gell sell for £7 7s to John Stowell + Wm Callow(shopkeepers Douglas) a small parcel 18yrd E-W adj the rivulet running at the end of the mill and 80yds backwards of Beamanaughague adj Douglas sand on part of which was formerly built and erected a snuff mill called Fishers Miln together with the right to dam sd water in the valley above the path leading from Douglas to Kk Conchan; witt Thomas Arthur, Richd Cubbon
Letter from James McCrone to Duke of Atholl 20 March 1825
I have had an application from Mr Dixon for the situation on which the old Burnt Mill stands on which he means to build ther 4 houses.
If you give him this stance (of which I can see no objection if he be taken bound to build immediately conform to the ground plan), care must be taken that he shall not make any use of the water for any public work, or in short for any thing more than to supply the premises for family use, and liberty must be reserved to a take a supply therefrom to any other part of the Crescent.
The mill referred to in SSS May 1768 47 above was later described in the 1830's as Heywood's mill as the then owner of what today is known as Summerhill Glen was J J Heywood - the mill would appear to be disused, referrred to as the "old mill" in the indenture between Heywood and the Douglas Water Work Company to use the rebuilt mill dam as a reservoir and to erect water filters etc. [the identification of the mill is my best estimate as the plan dates some 40 years post agreement, by which time the company had been transferred to public ownership]. The utility of this mill dam as a reservoir was noted by James Kewley in 1823.
SSS May 1839 #23
dated 28 Nov 1828; recites that Douglas Water Co. are entitled to a right to use the dam immediately above the old mill on Bemahague for the purpose of collecting water + also consider themselves to the water of a certain stream which runs thru sd estate and after crossing high road nr Summer Hill house enters property of Capt Samuel Pollack;John Joseph Heywood(Bemahague,Onchan) + wife Eliza sell for £350 the right to enter in and upon sd dam and lay down such pipes etc and build such walls and erections as needed for cleaning + filtering sd water and build walls not more than 4ft from sd water + to build a footpath for their access; witt Edward Caryl Fleetwood, Agnes Long
The water company also had to acquire the remaing water rights - this is the stream to which James McCrone refers do in his letter to the Duke of Atholl
SSS May 1835 #52
dated 28 June 1835;recites that Philip Garrett, Henry Robert Oswald, Lewis Cubbon, Robtert McGuffog and Mark Hildesley Quayle being directors of the Douglas Water Work Co. have contracted and agree to purchase De Ewes Coles right to, and interest in a certain antient mill stream or watercourse which discharges into the sea at or near the Burnt Mill - Coke to receive annual payment of £15; witt John Boats, William Geneste
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