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Pigeon Mills: Smock mill

Deception court case JAMES RICE. JOHN BROWN. Deception; fraud. 3rd January 1848.

... Nicholls represented himself as a miller, at Stratford, in Essex. ... "Stratford Mills, 15th Nov., 1847. Gentlemen, - I shall thank you to forward the weighing-machine I ordered by bearer..." ... I cannot recollect whether he said it was going to Stratford Mills. ... he gave his address, Pigeon Mills, Stratford ...

MATTHEW TURNER SHAW. I am in the employ of Cottam and Hallen. On 17th Nov. I went to the Three Pigeon Mills, Stratford—I did not find any person named Nicholls keeping them. Cross-examined by MR. HORRY. Q. You do not mean to say you found there was not such a person there? A. No: I saw a woman there and ascertained that Nicholls had been there three or four months before - I ascertained what he was - the mills were not at work - I did not inquire how long the woman had had the care of it - it was a windmill - there was not business going on. JAMES PERRINS re-examined. I saw Nicholls on 8th Nov., when he first came—the first thing he dealt with me about was a corn-crusher— I showed him two of different sizes—he selected the larger one—he said he wanted it to attach to the machinery of the mill— he had not told me of what mills he was the proprietor, but he said he was a miller at Stratford— he said he would send for the corn-crusher on the following day—he gave me this address, "James Nicholls, Pigeon Mills, Stratford, Essex"—he said he had waggons coming to the city every day with flour, but they were too heavy to send to the West-end for it, and he would send a lighter conveyance for the machine— I arranged that it should be ready for him on the following day—he gave me the order for the weighing-machine at the same time— I understood it was for weighing sacks of flour—it was to be made to order for him—we had not exactly the sort of thing that he wanted— I told him it would take a week or more to make—we told him the price would be 4l. 10s.—I afterwards saw that weighing machine at Phillips's— the crushing-machine has not been traced.

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #12683 - Pigeon's Mill (south), West Ham

A smock mill dated from 1724 until demolished October 1860