History of Springfield Park
The Wannerton Brook runs from the Clent Hills feeding a chain of pools which in the past all had mills or forges on them. The one at the site now known as the Stackpool was then called Lower Broadwaters Forge.
1570 Records show that this was the year when Edward Blount dug out the pool to turn the wheels at Lower Broadwaters Forge.
1643 Around this time it was said that there was manufacturing at Lower Broadwaters of blades for Royalists in the Civil War.
1861 William Millington Morgan living in Springfield House was managing the Broadwaters Tin Plate Works where 60 men were employed.
There were several changes of use of the Mill including Corn Milling, a Finers Forge, a Shingling Hammer and the manufacture of sheet iron and tin plate.
1893 The works were demolished. The cottages near the pool were occupied for about 60 years thereafter.
1937 The Mill was demolished by Kidderminster Town Council and sometime after the area beyond the Stackpool, served by a brick built bridge, was used as a municipal dump. It closed in 1980. It is now the Sports Field with two levelled football pitches
The Wannerton Brook runs from the Clent Hills feeding a chain of pools which in the past all had mills or forges on them. The one at the site now known as the Stackpool was then called Lower Broadwaters Forge.
1570 Records show that this was the year when Edward Blount dug out the pool to turn the wheels at Lower Broadwaters Forge.
1643 Around this time it was said that there was manufacturing at Lower Broadwaters of blades for Royalists in the Civil War.
1861 William Millington Morgan living in Springfield House was managing the Broadwaters Tin Plate Works where 60 men were employed.
There were several changes of use of the Mill including Corn Milling, a Finers Forge, a Shingling Hammer and the manufacture of sheet iron and tin plate.
1893 The works were demolished. The cottages near the pool were occupied for about 60 years thereafter.
1937 The Mill was demolished by Kidderminster Town Council and sometime after the area beyond the Stackpool, served by a brick built bridge, was used as a municipal dump. It closed in 1980. It is now the Sports Field with two levelled football pitches
