Albion Flour Mill, Walsall, Black Country, West Midlands,England, UK (Smiths Flour Mill)
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4020 x 3360 px | 34 x 28.4 cm | 13.4 x 11.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
21 February 2020Location:
71 Wolverhampton St, Walsall, England, UK, WS2 8DDMore information:
Post Medieval (1540 - 1900) Post Roman (410 - 1900) Summary: Dated 1849. 4-storey purpose-built flour mill (originally steam-powered). Ranges of arched and half-moon windows with iron grids and fanlights. Includes covered dock opening off a basin on the (Listed) lock flight next door. Description: On E bank of Walsall Locks (2695), served by canal branch leading to covered wharf inside mill. Steam mill, 1898 (sic - but should this be 1848 - MS 25.4.02), with 2 main, 4 storey blocks flanking an archway. (1) (2) Outstanding industrial building of 1849. Brick, with orig cast iron windows of small lights. Arched heads on all floors & lunettes at inter mezzanine level etc etc. (3) IRIS report. (4) A fine 4-storey brick steam mill built 1848. The central archway once extended over a public road, and there was a covered canal dock as well as a private coal wharf. (5) Dated 1849. 4-storey purpose-built flour mill (originally steam-powered). Ranges of arched and half-moon windows with iron grids and fanlights. Includes covered dock opening off a basin on the (Listed) lock flight next door. (6) Detailed analysis and recording ahead of conversion into flats. Four phases identfied: Phase 1 (1849) - rectangular building fronting Wolverhampton Road and adjoining terrace of Georgian houses; Phase 2 (later 19th century) - Phase 1 building extended to north, acquisition of warehouse building to W (which had a purpose built integral canal arm); Phase 3 (later 19th century) - original mill and adjacent warehouse joined at 2nd and 3rd floor levels; Phase 4 (20th century) various concrete and steel frame and corrugated steel clad structures built to the north of the historic mill buildings. The Albion Flour Mill in Wolverhampton Street was built in 1849, probably for Thomas Caloe, miller there from at least 1851 until the 1890s. By 1900 Smith Bros. (Walsall) Ltd. had taken it over, and the firm was still milling there in 1973.