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Description: | The Co-operative Flour Mill was the largest and most prominent building in Dunston. Work started on the mill in 1887 and it was completed in April 1891. The wheat warehouse, which was in the west of the building, was six storeys in height. Thirty large wooden wheat bins or silos were spread over four floors of the buildings and the machinery was capable of producing 40 sacks of flour per house, or 5,600 sacks per week. Buildings behind the mill included a blacksmith’s shop, storage rooms and sack-repairing rooms. The chimney of the mill became a local landmark and a soap works was constructed next to the mill in 1908. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Carlton, Ian | Subjects: | Milling Co-op | Temporal: | name=1970s; start=1970; end=1979; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Carlton, I. | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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