From 1868 O/S Plan X.15 - SC 360800
The Mill race is fed from upstream from the Glass which flows W-E north of the Mill bfore being joined by the Baldwin river flowing N-S - the Glass continues downstream to drive Woodside Mill and Mwillin-y-Chorrin
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From 1868 O/S Plan X.15 - SC 360800 The Mill race is fed from upstream from the Glass which flows W-E north of the Mill bfore being joined by the Baldwin river flowing N-S - the Glass continues downstream to drive Woodside Mill and Mwillin-y-Chorrin |
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Wm Cubbon in his lengthy study of Manx-made paper notes
There is in the Rolls Office a tithe-plan dated 1840 of 'Murray's Close and Part of Ballamillaghyn, the property of Mr. Robert Gelling; likewise the Paper Mill Premises' at Baldwin Vale. This is shown as the joint property of Robert Gelling and Anthony Lewthwaite, with a small plot of ground and a cottage between the mill and Ballaoates belonging to Miss Ann Lewthwaite. This Robert Gelling, whose father had built the mill, died at 'the Ballaoates Mill' on March 20th, 1849. His widow lived for many years afterwards in the cottage at the Baldwin Vale Mill.
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The Baldwin Vale Mill, of course, was worked by the Lewthwaites at the same period as their Laxey venture, and we find in Directories of 1851 and 1853 the following references: 1851, Laxey Lower Mill, John and Alexander Lewthwaite; 1853, John and Alexander Lewthwaite, Laxey and Mount Rule Paper Mills. Also in 1853 John Lewthwaite and his son Edward are described in the same Kirk Braddan Register as paper- makers.
T.A. Bawden The Manx Paper-Making Industry Proc IoMNH&ASoc vol 7 #3 pp449 et seq 1976
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