Flaxmill open day

An opportunity to have access to the Malting’s Flax Mill in Ditherington, Shrewsbury.

This was a fantastic chance to see inside this iconic building that has been left to ruin, the place where my father (pictured here), worked for many years up until the day it was closed and left to rot, this building is one of the first iron framed building to have been built in the world and one of the oldest still standing and we have let it down.

My father couldn’t wait to get back inside, to look around and relive some of the many memories he had of this place of work, it was fascinating to listen to him tell myself and Joshua (my son & his Grandson) of how this building worked and the conditions they worked in. His face lit up every time he talked of his memories and he was disgusted in the condition it was in, as when the Malting’s closed the building was in great condition and well maintained.

 

Thank you to the Flaxmill Maltings Community Arts open exhibition for the oppurtunity to go inside and photograph the buildings and for the chance to listen to my father relive some of his memories.

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