Web Brewers Lower Mills Rebuilding 1861
Clicking on the pdf file above will give you a list of names of the workers and their earnings over the four months that it took to rebuild the lock chamber at Brewers Lower Mills. The collapse was not unexpected – this had been a problem lock station from the start.
The story of the working life at this station is described in the chapter Life on the Locks. The trials and tribulations of Superintending Engineer James D. Slater – the struggle to rebuild the lock, the local fear of triggering a return of the history of malaria when the lock was first built, and bad weather – are all covered in the chapter Repairs and Reconstruction.
