Leather dressing for centuries was carried on in the Blockhouse Meadows at the Three Springs where there was ample water supply from the streams which there unite to form the Frogging Mill brook. It was run by the Bevington family, prominent in local affairs in Georgian times, and later in Victorian times by the Roberts family.
The Roberts had long been tanners or skinners in St. John's (1769), and John Roberts who purchased the tannery had been Bevington's foreman and manager.
Leather Girls c1910