William Avery's Timber Yard

• Copy of the Timber Trades Journal dated 9 May 1903

Copy of the Timber Trades Journal dated 9 May 1903 including photograph of William Avery and his Saw Mill, Ladder Hill.

See also 0493 and 2045.

Contrary to the family folklore that William Avery had bought this yard after spotting from the train, he was, in fact, the tenant of the Chillingworth family until he acquired the Chillingworth interest in 1908, see record 1156.

• Ladder Hill ex Avery sawmill

• Talk by Robert Avery
• Avery's Sawmill (extract)
• Three pictures of Wheatley station
• Avery's Sawmill 1880-1956
• Sale catalogue for Hill Farm, Ladder Hill
• Ladder Hill
• William Avery and his workforce
• Alfred Thurston and his steam crane.

• A 2044