|
Date |
Description |
Reference |
| Before 1600 |
|
1527 |
Will of Simon
Coates - left an endowment of land, a house and a chapel
to allow a hermit to dwell and pray for the souls and
maintain the causeway and bridge built by him. No one
succeeded him and it is likely that he was one of the
last hermits to exist in this country |
Mee
|
|
1570 |
Earliest reference to Lord's
Mill, Queen Street - Thomas Swyfte, miller |
Reger p 109
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|
1601-1700 |
|
1640 |
First mention of "Slipper" (Slype
= mud) - referring to a plot of land |
TY |
|
1640 |
Map by Thomas Kington for Lord
Lumley |
TY
|
| 1689 |
Picture of road bridge in
Ogilby's "Pocket Book of Roads" |
TY
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| 1701-1800 |
| 1700s |
Great strides in agriculture,
large harvests.
Army garrisons and Navy increased needing more flour. |
|
| 1724 |
Budgen mentions Hermitage
bridge |
Mee
|
| 1760 |
Mill & tidal pond built by
Thomas Hendy on South part of Norton Common
at the same time as he enlarged Hendy's Quay and built wharfage at Slipper.
This covered the wadeway to Thorney and the route was diverted at the bottom
of Sweare Lane (King Street) to run due South. |
TY |
| 1762 |
Turnpiking of Portsmouth to
Chichester road
Stakes bridge rebuilt |
Mee
|
| 1783 |
Slipper Mill insured for £500 -
premium 35/- |
TY |
| 1785 |
Bardwell Map:
Estate shows an extensive Slipper Wharf along what is now the Marina Bank.
Roundhouse meadow called a brickyard |
|
| 1786 |
By this date the lower Mill
pond had been built on part of Norton Common
Ropewalk shown on map |
TY |
| 1792 |
Ropewalk owned by Richard &
Stephen Miller |
Reger - p31
|
| 1800 |
about this time the Mill Pond
level had been raised and the Upper Pond formed, flooding common land
containing saw pits etc. |
TY |
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| 1801-1900 |
| 1801 |
Bridge built for the Turnpike
Trust in 1762 |
TY |
| 1805 |
Norton Common enclosed
Richard Barwell died
Rev. Lewis Way purchased Stanstead |
TY
|
| 1814 |
Queen Victoria is said to have
passed over Stakes Bridge at Hermitage at about noon on 25th June
(Dolphin Hill renamed Queen Street?) |
R.Mee
|
| 1831 |
Pigots Hants Directory
- John Cousins &
Sons, Slipper Mill |
TY |
| 1838 |
Westbourne Tithe - Executors. of
Rev. Lewis Way own Staggs Mill occupied by Thomas Newlyn |
TY |
| 1841 |
Roundhouse on map |
Rudkin p12
|
| 1865 |
Slipper cottages - date on
stone - built by Tatchell for workers |
TY |
| 1867-86 |
New Slipper Mill - Boney Hatch
|
TY
|
| 1874 |
OS map shows ropewalk
worked by Adolphus Miller
J Tatchell & Son - rope manufacturers - Hermitage |
Mee
|
| 1874-8 |
Thomas Bryerly - miller
|
TY |
| 1874-82 |
John Day junior - millwright -
Hermitage |
TY |
| 1876 |
Frank Burgess born in
Roundhouse (Brickyard)
Miller for 52 years (1918-1972) |
TY
|
| 1878 |
George Albert Tatchell - rope
manufacturers - Hermitage |
TY
|
| 1894 |
Queen Street mill burnt down
and rebuilt |
Reger p 109
|
| 1895 |
Sparshott junior Royal Oak Public
House (K) |
TY
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| 1901-1950 |
| 1903 |
Stakes bridge rebuilt
|
ty
|
| 1912 |
Big storm damaged Mill House.
Miller's family moved to Round House until Slipper Mill Cottage built by
Quinnells (IoW) Ltd. |
ty
|
| 1913 |
Ropewalk not working
|
ty
|
| 1914 |
First sewer excavated across
pond |
Rudkin - p19
|
| 1935 |
Purchase of Mill & Pond by
Leigh Thomas & Co Ltd - last operators of the mill - from Thomas Gater
Bradfield Co.Ltd. - limited to self-raising floor |
SMPPA |
| 1936 |
- Mill working - 2 (3) wheels
- Wooden tuns cover the stone floor.
- Tentering wheel for adjusting stones
- Grain came from bin floor above and flour from chute in
front.
|
TY
(Rex Whailes visit) |
| 1938 |
Chequers Garage site bought by
Ben Jones |
SMPPA |
| 1939 |
Mill stops working - used for
storage |
TY |
| 1940 |
Chequers Quay taken over for military use - including
splays over pond needed for vehicular access |
|
| 1942 |
Mention in "Secret Sussex" by
Hardiman Scott
|
TY
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| 1951-2000 |
| 1959 |
Mrs Dalley (owner of Slipper
House) leased pond for Leigh Thomas for £110p.a. for 10 years |
TY |
| 1960s |
Slipper Mill demolished
|
TY |
| 1962 |
Deed between Leigh Thomas,
Midland Bank and D.R.Sadler (Builders) |
SMPPA |
| 1963 |
Marina construction started
|
Reger |
| 1966 |
Slipper Mill Pond Preservation
Association formed in July
Mill building pulled down by a rope and a Vauxhall car |
SMPPA |
| 1967 |
Pond offered to SMPPA for
£4,000. - could not raise the cash. |
TY |
| 1968-9 |
Mill Store converted into 4
houses - now called "Slipper Mill" |
TY |
| 1969 Oct 27 |
Lease to Preservation
Association for 21 yrs at £1 p.a.. - lessees Kenneth William Rawlings, Irene Simmonds, Albert Edgar Symonds, Peter W. John Messervy. Shrubs to be planted
and boundary posts erected on east bank. Association membership fee set at
£7 PA. |
TY
|
| 1969 Jun 20 |
Harbour Authority asked for
gates to be opened at regular intervals to flush the channel. |
TY
|
| 1969 |
Dr Russell of Cockle research
came to look at pond |
TY |
| 1969 |
Conveyance to Evelyn Hyacinthe
Dailey (Slipper House) from Leigh Thomas & Midland Bank |
SMPPA |
| 1970 Oct. |
Gates worked on by Hitchman
|
TY
|
| 1970 |
Agreed with CHC to flush
channel monthly |
SMPPA |
| 1971Apr.23. |
Conveyance of the pond from
Evelyn Hyacinthe Freke Daily to her daughter June Pamela McNaughton.
|
SMPPA |
| 1972 Jul 4. |
Meeting to discuss future of
Slipper Mill Pond - some of the suggestions made were:
- Leaving the gates permanently open.
- Reclaiming the land for other purposes.
- Using the pond as a marina for 40 boats.
- For Winter storage of boats.
- Sailing area for dinghies and children's boats.
- Extend the southern wall across Dolphin channel with
2Oft gates for access in order to save having to repair the western bank.
- Asbestos sheeting on either side of the western bank
and fill with concrete. (cost £45 per yd)
- Progressively sandbag ( cost £40 yd)
|
TY
|
| 1972 |
Mill wall breached - repaired
by Assoc.(£100), WSCC (£550) & CHC (£400) |
SMPPA |
| 1973 |
Sluice repaired - £211
|
SMPPA |
| 1973 |
Building of Inner Relief Road
started and gates left open which increased the scour and built up the bank
inside the pond. |
SMPPA |
| 1974 Jul 30. |
Inner Relief Road opened.
|
SMPPA |
| 1976 Sept.10 |
Assoc. meeting. Gates are
leaking so badly that it was proposed that we could either repair the gates
or fix them and in effect turn them into a weir. Meeting agreed to have to
Gates repaired and working. A fund raising committee formed. Tony
Yoward.
Ted Gastine, Group Capt. David Hughes and Cdr. Simon Coney. |
TY
|
| 1976 |
Fund raising Committee formed
Gates rebuilt by Paul Russell - green oak and old fittings - £159
|
TY |
| 1977 Nov.16. |
Wednesday at 1.30 p.m. new
gates were officially closed by Chairman Coast & Countryside. West Sussex C
(Green)
(new gates estimate £883 - cost £1,600 when all finished) |
TY
|
| 1977 |
Paul Russell from West Ashling
Mill constructed new gates and 'frame' from green oak specially felled by
Stanstead Sawmills and delivered by Pat Mann. Forestside farmer. |
TY
|
| 1977 March. |
British Trust for Conservation
Volunteers first visit work on east side of west wall and path 1.000
sandbags. 2 tons cement, 17 cu yds ballast |
TY
|
| 1977 |
Copyright of drawing of gates
given to SMPPA by Ken Simkin
BTCV first visit - 1000 sandbags |
TY
|
| 1978 |
Completion of removal of
electrical shop and 3 houses and the widening of the bottom of Hermitage
Hill |
TY
|
| 1979 |
Association registered as a
charity |
SMPPA |
| 1980 May 8th. |
Pond purchased by 34 residents
for £10,000 (£100 shares). The Pond is managed by "Emsworth Slipper Mill
Pond Preservation Association" a registered charity, responsible for the
banks, footpath, sluice and tide gates. Upper pond (Norton common) now known
as "Peter's Pond" after the father of the new owner Mrs. Kinloch Elizabeth
Hollis. (Architect) |
SMPPA |
| 1982 |
Bank repairs
with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers |
SMPPA |
| 1985 |
CHC laid gabions along North
End of West Bank |
CHC |
| 1986 |
Nesting rafts made by Mr Owen
Jones were placed on the pond .... mallard and coot immediately
took up residence |
TY
|
| 1988 Sept. |
Planning application for a
block of flats to replace Chequers Garage. This was eventually granted after
it had been reduced from 40 to 37 ft in height with a number of restrictions
|
TY
|
| 1988 |
New A27 dual carriageway
bypassing Emsworth opened.
Stakes bridge rebuilt |
TY
|
| 1988 |
Sluice & outfall repaired.
|
SMPPA |
| 1989 Summer |
Footbridge strengthened
|
Newsletter
|
| 1989 Jan |
"Older" Report on pond banks
|
SMPPA
|
| 1990 Jan |
SW Corner repaired with Reno
mattress |
AGM
|
| 1991 Oct |
Sluice & gate repaired
West bank repairs with sandbags (BTCV) |
AGM
|
| 1991 Sept. |
No movement in Spillway crack
Dolphin Bank breach repaired |
AGM
|
| 1992 Nov |
Bridge Repairs
Work on A259 Bridge not complete |
AGM
|
| 1993 |
Bank reconstruction |
SMPPA |
| 1994 Apr |
"Lambert" Report on cracks in
the Gates - West Wall |
SMPPA |
| 1994 Winter |
Floods |
SMPPA |
| 1995 |
Wimpey housing development
surface water sewer proposal to discharge into pond objected to - rerouted
through the Marina
Rofe Kennedy & Lapworth report on River Ems
|
SMPPA |
| 1996 |
Gate flank walls strengthened
|
SMPPA
|
| 1998 Oct. |
Very high tides together with
high flow rates in the Ems valley. Flooding - Lumley Cottages affected
|
SMPPA
|
| 1998 |
Slipper and Peter Ponds
registered "Sites of Nature Conservation Interest" (SNCI) |
SMPPA |
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| 2001- |
| 2000-2003 |
Planning application for land
alongside Hermitage Brook opposed on grounds of fear of pollution from
untreated surface water |
SMPPA
|
| 2001 |
Slipper Road repaired - SMPPA
contributes £1,000 for bank strengthening. |
SMPPA
|
| 2001-2002 |
"Burgess" report discovers
Lumley Cottages flooding was fluvial and not a result of the Pond Gates
management regime. It was noted that the cottages themselves are low lying
and could be swamped by exceptional tides. |
SMPPA
|
| 2002 |
Sluice - paddle and assembly
rebuilt |
SMPPA
|
| 2003 |
South-west bank repairs -
inside and outside by volunteers |
SMPPA
|
| 2004 |
Kissing gates and bike rack
installed
Radar survey of bank - financial help from CHC
Emergency works to West tide gate outer wall by volunteers - helped again by
CHC
Wave undercut sandbag bank infilled repaired by volunteers with full grant
funding from WSCC & CDC |
SMPPA |
| 2005 |
SMPPA - stake holder in
Environment Agency's Catchment Flood Management Plan
DEFRA - Flood Management Forward Capital Programme -
Westbourne to Emsworth Flood Improvement (HX80370) (Note
silt level survey)
DEFRA - Coastal Defence Strategy - Porchester Creek to
Emsworth - (JH60537)
Arup geotechnical assessment of West bank |
SMPPA |
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Slipper Mill Pond
Preservation Association
