Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, grain milling
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- United Kingdom
Sectors:
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Food & tobacco processing
Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products
Notes:
First started grain milling in 1891 at Dunstan on Tyne. Built another mill at Silvertown, London, in 1900. 1906 purchased Federal Mills at Rochdale and Oldham and Sun Mill at Manchester.1910 built new mill at Avonmouth. 1915 bought Sowerby Bridge Federal Society Mill and mills of Halifax & Staithwaite Flour Society. 1918 acquired Wilmington Flour Mills, Hull
Publications:
- 'A century of flour milling' in P Redfern, Story of the CWS. The jubilee history of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, 1863-1913 by Redfern, Percy
- Flour Milling and the CWS by Unknown
- Story of the CWS. The jubilee history of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, 1863-1913 by Redfern, Percy
- The Millers. A story of technological endeavour and industrial success, 1870-2001 by Jones, R Glyn
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- United Kingdom
Sectors:
- Food & tobacco processing Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products
Notes:
First started grain milling in 1891 at Dunstan on Tyne. Built another mill at Silvertown, London, in 1900. 1906 purchased Federal Mills at Rochdale and Oldham and Sun Mill at Manchester.1910 built new mill at Avonmouth. 1915 bought Sowerby Bridge Federal Society Mill and mills of Halifax & Staithwaite Flour Society. 1918 acquired Wilmington Flour Mills, HullPublications:
- 'A century of flour milling' in P Redfern, Story of the CWS. The jubilee history of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, 1863-1913 by Redfern, Percy
- Flour Milling and the CWS by Unknown
- Story of the CWS. The jubilee history of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, 1863-1913 by Redfern, Percy
- The Millers. A story of technological endeavour and industrial success, 1870-2001 by Jones, R Glyn