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In 1912 the mill was owned by Walter Bock and Henry Coley, who had purchased it about three years earlier from Oliver Austin. It was situated in Stewart Street, Foxton, just south of the Borough boundary.

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Date
1912
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2007N_Fx38_FLA_0626
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