Bute Mills, Luton

A steam-powered corn mill in the historic county of Bedfordshire, England.

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The mill was a steam powered roller mill completed in 1911 on Bute Street, Luton, next to the railway. It belonged to the Brown family. From 1928-9 it was in use as a hat factory, and in 1939 was sold to Richard Haigh and used to produce fertiliser for Produx Industries, later Garotta Products. Fertiliser production had ceased by the 1980s. The building was used by advertising agency Butterfield Morris Bushell from 1993 to 2009, and then purchased by youth organisation Youthscape in 2013. The interior was refurbished and the building reopened by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2016.

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Alternative names	Great Northern Steam Mills
Power source	Steam
Mill type	Roller flour mill
Mill function	Corn mill
Archive ID	13957
Location	Luton
Historic county	Bedfordshire
Country	England, United Kingdom
NGR	TL 093 214
Latitude/longitude	51.88114400, -0.41337600

Location

References

• https://www.youthscape.co.uk/about/bute-mills-history
• Ordnance Survey 25 inch map, Bedfordshire XXXIII.5 (1880)

 

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