Scott's Mill - 1845
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This is Roberts Griffiths' sketch dated 1845.

A mill on this site was occupied by William Willacy in 1820 although it was apparently much older than that. By 1835 a map shows the mill as belonging to ' Mrs. Scott'.  Griffiths says the mill belonged to the 'trustees of the legatee of the late Daniel Scott'. This was an old fashioned type of lease, being for 'three lives plus a number of years' (as the Herculaneum lease was).  The legatee, presumed to be Mrs Scott, had come into possession in the last life.

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The Mill in the 20th century

 

 

 

 
The old mill tower, without the sails, was there until the 1960s at least. It was painted terracotta red with small white windows. There was an associated reservoir or pond which can be see from the Lavrock Bank chimney photos. John in Oz recalls that " The old Mill burnt down in 1961 - the fire engines and hose pipes all over the roads with Mill Street closed off for a number of days. It was demolished Immediately afterwards and virtually within weeks the current tall concrete effort was being built. Up until the early 1960s Wilson's used Sentinel "steam" trucks to haul their flour sacks. Each one would be a large flat bed truck pulling a trailer. They went down Mill Street and up Warwick Street very slowly. They were slow but with great pulling power. They had solid rubber tyres. They were very quiet when running."