gingerfold:
Hosegoods Mill in Avonmouth Docks. It was built in the late 1930s by a local consortium (led by Hosegoods) of small millers and grain merchants whose ambition was to operate an ultra modern large flour mill. The consortium ran out of money before all the machinery was installed so Spillers stepped in and bought it. Even though the Hosegoods name is prominent this mill never milled a sack of flour under that ownership. It was acquired by ADM when it bought the rump of the Spillers business in 1998 and is still in production today. ADM - Archer Daniels Midland - is a massive American company based at Decatur Illinois with worldwide grain, flour, and agricultural commodity businesses. It is also big in cocoa trading.
Used to go there to the animal feed Division with recovered Flour, and there was a company further down the dock, the name escapes me, big in waste Products[Animal Feeds]
CJA1] This one was taken tipping at Ashton Gate Bristol, again name escapes me grey matter fading? LOL!!!
gingerfold:
Hosegoods Mill in Avonmouth Docks. It was built in the late 1930s by a local consortium (led by Hosegoods) of small millers and grain merchants whose ambition was to operate an ultra modern large flour mill. The consortium ran out of money before all the machinery was installed so Spillers stepped in and bought it. Even though the Hosegoods name is prominent this mill never milled a sack of flour under that ownership. It was acquired by ADM when it bought the rump of the Spillers business in 1998 and is still in production today. ADM - Archer Daniels Midland - is a massive American company based at Decatur Illinois with worldwide grain, flour, and agricultural commodity businesses. It is also big in cocoa trading.
Used to go there to the animal feed Division with recovered Flour, and there was a company further down the dock, the name escapes me, big in waste Products[Animal Feeds]
CJA1] This one was taken tipping at Ashton Gate Bristol, again name escapes me grey matter fading? LOL!!!
CJA1:
Ers one =Gingerfold taken loading at selby mill, think I had the shakes LOL!!!
that wasn’t a firm called sugar rich was it chris . they had a place in liverpool where we took a lot of old or contaminated flour from canklow . i believe they had other places as well , not sure where though , cheers , dave
rigsby:
that wasn’t a firm called sugar rich was it chris . they had a place in liverpool where we took a lot of old or contaminated flour from canklow . i believe they had other places as well , not sure where though , cheers , dave
[CJA1]= Thats the one Dave, thanks mate, used to go to one at Reditch Mid"s, Dirty rotten place out in the sticks, how you doin Dave? Chri CJA1.
i’m plodding on ta chris , busy pulling the stuffing out of my mattress , it’s the wife’s birthday tomorrow and she wants me to take her out for a meal . i offered her a takeaway ,but she insists she wants to go out . she must think i’m made of brass . hope you are keeping ok and prospering , cheers ,dave
Lawrence Dunbar:
0Spillers some years ago when it was in its hayday on the Tyne, Regards Larry.
That was some building!
When Spillers Tyne Mill opened in the late 1930s it was the largest output flour mill in Europe, later surpassed in 1953 by the rebuilt Spillers Millennium Mill in Silvertown. These were huge buildings but a modern mill such as the Allied Mills Coronet Mill in Manchester produces twice as much flour weekly as these old mills produced in a modern building about one tenth the size.
only did a couple of days agency work with this out of hovis Rotherham,hated the eps gearbox–alannow demolished but we have a new footy ground,new York stadium so good they named it once
A couple of J.W. French’s AECs unloading at Lyons Cadby Hall bakery in West London. French’s former mill at Ware still exists, converted into living apartments and flats.
And a French’s AEC Mandator showing off its new trailer in Lots Road Chelsea, with the London Underground’s famous power station in the background. This was the only large power station in the country that generated direct current, and closed only about 10 years ago, with the Underground train system now taking most of its power from the National Grid.
Frank Hemmings, based at Spillers Birkenhead Mill delivering to McCann’s bakery in Newry, Northern Ireland. Ferry crossings were either Liverpool to Belfast or Stranraer to Larne.
Nice little J Type van promoting Turog bread, which was baked from a Spillers branded flour of the same name, similar to the original Hovis wheatgerm bread. Turog also had added caramel colour to make the bread more brown coloured. A corner of Spillers’ (originally Paul Brothers) Dock Road Mill Birkenhead in the background behind the railway wagon.
In the early 1970s it became more cost effective to ship containers of flour over to Northern Ireland. One such container seen leaving Beaufort Road Mill, Birkenhead. and second picture shows one being handled in Belfast.
CJA1:
Hi Gingerfold[Graham], We used to have some of those lift tanks at M/C Mill, also they adapted a standard rigid rd tank, i:e took the tank off and put one of those things on it, Jimmy Hughes used to drive it said it was a n/mare top heavy, but eh" thats management for you Regards CJA1.
CJA1:
Hi Gingerfold[Graham], We used to have some of those lift tanks at M/C Mill, also they adapted a standard rigid rd tank, i:e took the tank off and put one of those things on it, Jimmy Hughes used to drive it said it was a n/mare top heavy, but eh" thats management for you Regards CJA1.
CJA1:
Ers another Vac Job, Cleanig up a mess at M/C Mill Regards CJA1.
gingerfold:
Hosegoods Mill in Avonmouth Docks. It was built in the late 1930s by a local consortium (led by Hosegoods) of small millers and grain merchants whose ambition was to operate an ultra modern large flour mill. The consortium ran out of money before all the machinery was installed so Spillers stepped in and bought it. Even though the Hosegoods name is prominent this mill never milled a sack of flour under that ownership. It was acquired by ADM when it bought the rump of the Spillers business in 1998 and is still in production today. ADM - Archer Daniels Midland - is a massive American company based at Decatur Illinois with worldwide grain, flour, and agricultural commodity businesses. It is also big in cocoa trading.
Pre ADM days there used to be a bit of a weird setup with Gainsborough and Avonmouth, milled at one site then sent in a bulker to the other site for bagging, I worked for a subby that then took the bagged product back “home” again. There must have been method in the madness bit I never could get my head round it.
Some mills didn’t (and still don’t) have bag packing facilities, and it’s also to do with product rationalisation within millers running several mills. Only yesterday we did a stock transfer of bagged flour from ADM Liverpool to ADM Leith.
only did a couple of days agency work with this out of hovis Rotherham,hated the eps gearbox–alan
now demolished but we have a new footy ground,new York stadium so good they named it once 
