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Melbourne Street Steam Flour Mill

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    Fish, Andy [Author]

    Publisher HIAS Journal
    Year of publication 2024 (32) pp 1 - 9
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    Medium Digital
    Note: Copyright restrictions mean the attachment below only contains part of the publication. The full document is available for inspection at the Mills Archive Research and Education Centre.
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    Wind & watermills > England > Hampshire & Isle of Wight

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    Scope & contentThe Melbourne Steam Flour Mill was situated on the corner of Melbourne Street and Princess Street, Southampton, adjacent to “The Chapel Tramway” and the Gas works.

    It was shown on the large scale Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1868. The first reference to Melbourne steam mill is in the ‘‘Southampton Street Directory” published by Forbes in 1859, showing the owners to be the Hague Brothers. Then, in the 1871 Cox’s directory, the listing shows Hague’s Steam Flour Mill situated at 36 Melbourne Street.

    After extensive searches, no definitive schedule of the machinery in the mill has been found. In the Street Directories published between 1884 and 1904, the mill is shown as vacant. However, the building is shown on the Goad Insurance Map of 1893, as a Fodder Warehouse. The next reference to the building is when it was advertised for sale by auction in 1899. It is still there on the O.S. map of 1933.

    After the Second World War, the area became very run-down. The building was purchased, on the 27th of January 1966 by the local authority, under a compulsory purchase order for the redevelopment of the property. The whole area was later demolished, and the site was redeveloped to form the Central Trading Estate and St, Mary’s Stadium, the home of Southampton Football Club.

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