Dunston, CWS Flour Mills

HER Number:
1668

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Dunston, CWS Flour Mills

Place:
Dunston

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Mill

Site Type: Specific:
Flour Mill

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Once part of a complex of buildings owned by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, which included a soap works (HER ref. 1016), grain cleaning house and storage silos (HER ref. 1624) and a jetty. The flour mills were the first part of the complex to be built, in 1891. They are no longer standing.

Easting:
230

Northing:
626

Grid Reference:
NZ230626

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1668 >> I. Ayris, Co-operative Society Granary, Silos, Jetty and Soapworks at Dunston