Occasional Magazine N.S. Vol.1 No.2 (August 1982)
Further Reminiscences by W. H. Hackwell. The author adds some anecdotes of Everton in the 1880s-1890s to his account in the previous issue [115]. Colonel Goff, owner of Everton Grange, tried to establish a rookery without success and diverting surface water from the village to make ponds in front of his house likewise caused problems, this time with sewage. Obsessed with punctuality, the Colonel had a large bell rung to order his staff when precisely to start and stop work. Another story concerns the author’s encounter with a beggar armed with a knife intent on breaking nearby windows. He writes, too, of Efford Mill grinding all the corn grown in the district and cottagers using donkey carts or wheelbarrows to convey the corn and flour to and fro.
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