CWS Flour Mills
CWS Flour Mills
HER Number
1668
District
Gateshead
Site Name
CWS Flour Mills
Place
Dunston
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Food and Drink Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Flour Mill
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
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
423000
Northing
562600
Grid Reference
NZ423000562600
Sources
<< HER 1668 >> I. Ayris, Co-operative Society Granary, Silos, Jetty and Soapworks at Dunston