EPW008648 ENGLAND (1923). Granary at Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth, 1923

Site of Spillers roller flour mills, completed in 1935

C J King & Sons. Kings operated tugs at Avonmouth and also two floating grain-handling units

Engine shed for steam locomotives

Cold store

Royal Edward Granary Number 2. Warehouse for sack storage etc.

Royal Edward Dock. Excavation work visible in this photograph is part of the land reclamation scheme at Holesmouth set up in part to give relief work for the unemployed. The spoils of their labour being removed by contractor's railway trucks. In a matter of months this undertaking was to form part of the new Eastern Arm of the Royal Edward Dock expansion programme. The £1000, 000 contract to increase grain handling capacity at Royal Edward Dock was agreed at the beginning of 1924, and preliminary work undertaken in March of that year by Sir William Arrol & Co, Ltd.

Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd. Avonmouth Mill. Flour and Provender Milling. Wheat Silo. The wheat silo is under construction and appears to be nearing completion. The enclosure for the grain washer water storage tank and grain elevator tower may need finishing off? The silo is shrouded in scaffolding and a lattice-work tower mast, part of the concrete delivery plant is in evidence. The method of construction was poured in situ reinforced concrete, the liquid material being poured into various shaped forms and shuttering.

Royal Edward Granary Number 1. Built on the silo principal.

CWS flour mills

Royal Edward Dock