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Jennypeg
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windmill on mill rd marlpool
replied on: 5/14/2005 2:45:37 PM

Hi,
I found this about Marlpool Mill but no photo!

RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS
10TH Oct 1975
MARLPOOL MILL
Sir, - Your correspondent, Mrs Czarnowski’s enquiries concerning Marlpool Mill and Sukey’s Hole is interesting to me. The exact date of the demolition of the Mill I do not know, but I would say 1878 for this reason. My father, who was born in 1869, remembered the Mill working, but your correspondent’s mother, Mrs Brentnall, still living in John Street, aged 96, did not. I assume from this that the Mill closed about the date I have given. My records show that George Abbott was operating the Mill in the late 1860’s.
I would like to give some interesting facts, not directly concerned with the question asked, but connected with it. Some bricks from the demolished Mill were used to build a house on Mill Road, owned by the late Mr. George Pynegar. The name Pynegar is worthy of mention as it is one of the oldest family names in the district. One Pynegar was a drummer in Cromwell’s army in 1645, a Langley man I believe, he gave evidence at the trial of Charles 1, namely that he had seen the King’s flag raised at Nottingham Castle.
A plan of The Enclosures Act, dated 1796, shows a road off Mill Road, opposite Propect Road, named Pynegars Road, A further coincidence, although not of historic interest. Some 60 years ago a schoolteacher named Pynegar lived at the old Millhouse.
In answer to Mrs Czarnowski’s second question, I would like to quote a ballad punted at Nottingham in the early part of last century entitled “Murder most foul” which I found in some papers belonging to my grandfather; there were quite a number of verses, of which I remember two. This may be, or not, an answer to the question, but when I was a boy it was always said that a woman had drowned herself in the pond. The verses I remember are as follows:
Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, When men went to plough,
Suke White made some pancakes, she did not know how;
She burnt them, she scorched them, till they were all black,
Then put in some poison and killed off old Jack.

When they went to fetch her for murder most foul,
They found her face downward in old Sutty’s pool;
She had cheated the hangman, which no doubt was best,
But now and forever she will never find rest.
I suppose from the ballad one could assume she had killed her husband with poisoned pancakes; the reference to old Sutty could have been Squire Sutton, of Heanor Hall, the owner of the pond.
Yours etc, P. Eggleshaw

Jenny

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