8th July 2007, 11:45 AM
I remember being called to a grade one listed mill building to see the remains of the mill pond and the medieval sluice gear being removed by a JCB, the owner very proudly showing me the remains of the sluice gear in the skip, crushed and broken, but before then sealed under the silt in the pond having survived 600 years quiet happily, he was so proud to tell me how he was going to reinstate the pond, "clay and straw puddle lined" I asked, oh no "concrete" was his reply. photographs and paper records and straight back to the office to make urgent phone calls to the powers that be, shock and horror all-round threats of a court case, major prosecution, after all this mill was in the grounds of a major medieval abbey. Time passed and passed a bit more, I asked my boss's, I was told to forget it... only later I found out the owner was a friend of the chief executive of the national body I worked for...
No Sleep Till Natural.
No Sleep Till Natural.