History
In 1895 Miller brothers built a timber mill (?) on the site and as production increased the need to maintain equipment meant that the place was expanded to incorporate the various machinery workshops until 1901 when the site sole function was for the maintenance of Millers equipment. During both World War I and World War II the workshops were converted to manufacture armaments. In the 1930s the timber industry in the region peaked with Millers operating 26 saw mills and an extensive private railway system to support the mills. The workshops became the centre of the operations employing in excess of 100 people, the workshops included a foundry making the parts as necessary, as part of this an extensive collect of wooden patterns were made and are still retained on site in the workshops.
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