I've had a couple of weeks of parental leave recently and in between the swimming pools, play parks, castles and wildlife park visits, I managed to get around to sorting out the attic. While routing through the endless boxes I came across a haul of old exploring souvenirs. That sure kept me entertained for a couple of hours and brought back some great memories of pre social media/youtube exploring days.
In late 2010 myself and flyingmonkeycorps made a couple of last visits to Clarence Flour Mills in Hull to rescue some bits. All the old plans and drawings from the late 1940s redevelopment (following the bombing during ww2 of the original mill) remained in a room near the old security cabin and we had to have them. While on this particular visit mixed among the paperwork and original plans I found a DVD.
A History Of Clarence Flour Mills (1891 - 2005)
Its a fascinating history of one of my favourite mills, featuring interviews with the workers, but most importantly a glimpse inside the mill while it was up and running. Presumably a promotional 30 minute movie created to celebrate the place upon closure in 2005.
So for the purposes of history I burned the 27min of scratch free DVD and reluctantly created a youtube channel to upload it onto. I know there are a few mill geeks out there like me that will appreciate the history too. I've included a few dodgy screenshots for anyone who doesn't want to watch the whole thing but might still be interested.
For the new boys at the back of the class, this mill had some of the nicest wooden belt driven "Simon" machinery in place before it was knocked in 2015. It had to been seen in person to appreciate it. For those of us who did see inside maybe you will enjoy seeing it up and running.
Dodgy old Report time
Here is the link to the video
Screenshots
Good times
In late 2010 myself and flyingmonkeycorps made a couple of last visits to Clarence Flour Mills in Hull to rescue some bits. All the old plans and drawings from the late 1940s redevelopment (following the bombing during ww2 of the original mill) remained in a room near the old security cabin and we had to have them. While on this particular visit mixed among the paperwork and original plans I found a DVD.
A History Of Clarence Flour Mills (1891 - 2005)
Its a fascinating history of one of my favourite mills, featuring interviews with the workers, but most importantly a glimpse inside the mill while it was up and running. Presumably a promotional 30 minute movie created to celebrate the place upon closure in 2005.
So for the purposes of history I burned the 27min of scratch free DVD and reluctantly created a youtube channel to upload it onto. I know there are a few mill geeks out there like me that will appreciate the history too. I've included a few dodgy screenshots for anyone who doesn't want to watch the whole thing but might still be interested.
For the new boys at the back of the class, this mill had some of the nicest wooden belt driven "Simon" machinery in place before it was knocked in 2015. It had to been seen in person to appreciate it. For those of us who did see inside maybe you will enjoy seeing it up and running.
Dodgy old Report time
Here is the link to the video
Screenshots
Good times
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