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