c late 1950’s. William Thorne Sawmills, Prospect Road, was built in 1949, when the mill was relocated from North Stoneham, Eastleigh. The main building housed a full width electric hoist gantry that enabled all the timber to be lifted in and out of the main mill. You can cleary see the 2 parallel tracks that the hoist gantry travelled in and out on. The Butters Electric Derrick crane arrived in the early 1950s. It had a steel vertical column, with 2 sloping lattice box girders and 2 horizontal lattice box girder beams, all mounted on 3 large concrete block bases. It had to be hauled around in an arc by hand with ropes tied to the timber. In the background to the left is the rear elevation and roof of a house on New Farm Road, and the houses to the top right are the back of the Jesty Road buildings, as the area in between, which is now Perins Close, has not been built on.