STOURTON and GASPER HISTORY

NEW LAKE FLOOD

newspaper headlines

Western Gazette 6th July 1917

plank bridge

New Lake Dam

I can only imagine it (the l917 Flood), the footbridge washed away in the storm then – because it all came through that one grating in those days. The Lake of course was higher in those days – even if it was only 2ft. higher, that expanse, the number of gallons to go through that grating … Fred Evill

plank bridge

plank bridge
plank bridge
plank bridge
crowd looking at damaged waterwheel

The waterwheel at Gasper Mill

mill with walls ripped off

Kitchen & dairy at Gasper Mill

mill with walls ripped off