The fulling mill lay where the road crosses the river via a ford about a mile above Corpusty water cornmill. It also lay about a quarter mile south west (downstream) of the Tan Office. The fulling mill would have predated the tanning mill as clean water is essential for fulling cloth and the tanning mill produced considerable quantiities of filthy and polluted water.

Newly woven cloth was washed, pressed and kneaded. Originally it was put in a trough and trodden. Later it was mechanically beaten by wooden hammers, geared to a wheel, which pulverised the cloth. Fuller's earth was used to mat the material and give it body and at the same time remove the grease from the newly woven cloth.

I well remember many a summer afternoon spent playing in the pipes under the road and tickling trout that lay under the down stream ends.
Dr. George James Carman - 22nd December 2003 (son of George Edward Carman)

This attached picture was taken on 25^th June 2007.  The cottage “The Fullmill” in the background.  Note that the water board pipe that used to be above the handrail on the west side of the bridge (left side in this photo) is now underground making the view from the footbridge much more pleasurable.
Dr. George J. Carman - 26th August 2007

Charlotte Bateman later married and became Charlotte Herod but apparently her husband was either pressganged or drowned. Charlotte then married Peter Harrison, son of John & Elizabeth (née Bartrum) Harrison of Saxthorpe. Peter and Charlotte Harrison later moved to the mining area in Northumberland in the 1860s..

Faden's map 1797: Fulling Mill Bridge + Mill House

Bryant's map 1826: Old Tanning Office

Deed 1830: 3 cottages and land referred to as the Fullingmill

OS map 1890-1891: Fulling Mill

c.1920: George John Carman's paerents rented two of the three original cottages on the site

c. 1923: George John Carman married and moved to Brinton leaving his parents in the cottages

August 1953: George Edward Carman bought the property from Henry Wright