A few pics of jn millers wolverhampton,1st pic canal arm going under mill and terminated under rail lines at rear of mill,2nd pic couple of trucks over discharge hopper,the canal basin was under the front of goods truck,3rd pic the building on left supplied power for the hydraulic capstan winches to shunt waggons,4th pic show the cattle dock which is now where ring road runs through,ta,Pete
gingerfold:
Healings of Tewkesbury and their own barge Deerhurst. I belive that Deerhurst still exsts.
The last two barges they ran have survived. Matthews bought some old mill machinery at auction there last year and a driver who collected it was told they had.
The last two barges are at Sharpness docks went there to be inspected when sold and were to be used again but have never left Sharpness,they both have Gardner engines one a marine version the other a road going version.Another of the barges was at Barnstaple as a house boat and another is moored at Upton on severn.
Inoticed one of Matthews 06 dafs delivering in grange today at grange bakery. handball job?
pete smith:
A few pics of jn millers wolverhampton,1st pic canal arm going under mill and terminated under rail lines at rear of mill,2nd pic couple of trucks over discharge hopper,the canal basin was under the front of goods truck,3rd pic the building on left supplied power for the hydraulic capstan winches to shunt waggons,4th pic show the cattle dock which is now where ring road runs through,ta,Pete
Great pics of old mill and canal. I remember delivering to Smiths flour mill at Walsall, which like most old flour mills had the canal running alongside.
Barge Derhurst again this time in Gloucester Docks with a couple of the Gloucester flour mills in the background.
Greens of Maldon, alongside the river. The mill regularly received wheat by sailing barge years ago.
shirtbox2003:
Inoticed one of Matthews 06 dafs delivering in grange today at grange bakery. handball job?
Grange as in Grange Over Sands? If so it’s handball onto the pumptruck, wheel down the alley and down a ramp into the bakery. I put a Euro pallet on lengthways to act as a brake incase the pumptruck runs away. I’ll probably get that marvellous drop in a fortnight as I’m on the roster for that area when it next comes around. I’ll probably get the wonderful Kirkby Lonsdale too.
ISHIFT5:
pete smith:
A few pics of jn millers wolverhampton,1st pic canal arm going under mill and terminated under rail lines at rear of mill,2nd pic couple of trucks over discharge hopper,the canal basin was under the front of goods truck,3rd pic the building on left supplied power for the hydraulic capstan winches to shunt waggons,4th pic show the cattle dock which is now where ring road runs through,ta,PeteGreat pics of old mill and canal. I remember delivering to Smiths flour mill at Walsall, which like most old flour mills had the canal running alongside.
Hi,ISHIFT5,the canal arm at Smiths walsall ran under mill next to weighbridge\wheatfeed loading chutes,ta,Pete
Outloading bay at King’s Mill Knottingley, shortly after the mill had been completely re-furbished and modernised. Now owned by ADM Milling.