I was intrigued by the reference to the “now antique” spool bedstead made at Walker’s Mill. Around 1975 I bought at an auction at Stephen Thayer’s Gothic Revival house on the Turnpike coming into the center of the town a small double bedstead with turned headboard and footboard which might be described as a spool bedstead. I wonder if it came from Walker’s Mill? It’s certainly old.
I grew up on Ashby Road and my grandfather, Waino Kontio who built our house after he got back from fighting in Italy during WWII, had told me at one time that he had worked at that mill previously. As kids we used to swim and fish the river behind it. Back in the early 90's a friend of mine was running a body shop out of one of the old buildings there.
I was intrigued by the reference to the “now antique” spool bedstead made at Walker’s Mill. Around 1975 I bought at an auction at Stephen Thayer’s Gothic Revival house on the Turnpike coming into the center of the town a small double bedstead with turned headboard and footboard which might be described as a spool bedstead. I wonder if it came from Walker’s Mill? It’s certainly old.
I grew up on Ashby Road and my grandfather, Waino Kontio who built our house after he got back from fighting in Italy during WWII, had told me at one time that he had worked at that mill previously. As kids we used to swim and fish the river behind it. Back in the early 90's a friend of mine was running a body shop out of one of the old buildings there.