Here at Ingatestone Hall in 1566, wrote Thomas Larke, surveyor to Sir William Petre, about Ingatestone Hall, the new house that Sir William had built twenty-five years earlier in the midst of his Essex estates. Since then, the house has passed throu ...
Stock Tower Mill is a good example, in working order, of the millwright's craft of the 1890's, although originally built about 1816. Evidence can be seen of the original layout, which included a stage for setting and winding the sails. ...