Hidden past
3:25pm Thu Jan 26, 2012
Although the building at 1 Farndon Road, Newark, had, in recent years, been used as a tuck shop, it was used by Redmond Cafferata in the 19th Century as the stopping place for his gypsum railway wagons to be counted before they were unloaded on to barges on the canal.
Because of this it forms an important part of Newark’s industrial heritage.
Having recently lost the sawmill near Longstone Bridge to a ‘tidying up’ exercise, I would like to see Cafferata’s Crossing House retained and repaired, with information available, possibly in the Sconce Visitor Centre, about its original purpose.
— ANN BORRILL, Newark (Full address supplied).
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