Brown Family: Ten flour mills in one hundred years
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| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | The Mills Archive Trust |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Languages | English (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| Series | Mills Archive Research Publications |
| No. in series | 7 |
| Topics | People and communities > People, families & firms |
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| Scope & content | This is the history of the Brown family involvement in flour milling between 1848 and 1954. It began with Frederick Shadrach Daniel Brown who built the Sun Flour Mills in Waltham Abbey in 1848 and ended when the company was sold to Spillers in 1954 and the last of the Brown mills were closed at Tower Bridge and the Albert Embankment at Vauxhall. During that time, they owned, leased or operated ten mills in Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Devon, Ireland, and London. Some were almost destroyed by fire and rebuilt using insurance money, others were sold following bankruptcies. The company survived a critical period in the flour milling industry when steam-powered millstones were making way for roller milling technology and cheap grain was flooding into Britain from North America. The mills in the Brown family were: Sun Flour Mills, Waltham Abbey, Essex; Amwell End Mill, Ware, Hertfordshire; Wades Mill, Thundridge, Hertfordshire; Waddon Flour Mills, Croydon, Surrey; Tower Bridge Mills, Shad Thames, Bermondsey, Surrey; The Royal Flour Mills, Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London; Salfords Mill, Horley, Surrey; Powhay Mills, Exeter, Devon; Kingsbury Mill, St Albans, Hertfordshire; and St. Johns Mill, Cork, Ireland. a downloadable pdf of the book is available to purchase here: https://new.millsarchive.org/product/brown-family-pdf/ |
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Accession no. 230083
- Shelf location: A045-07
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