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If I find you've been creepin' 'round the old abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit. Ok, it's not how the song goes, but they are words to live by.
Wilkins the Bakers origins lay in the early 1900s.
F Wilkins started out as a franchise holder for the Isaac and Co Dairy Company's bakery division and by 1911 had taken over Fippard and Sons bakery and shop at 192 Old Christchurch Rd on the corner of Glen Fern Rd [ now Pizza Express ].
By the early 1930s Wilkins had a string of local shops and a purpose built bakery at 62 Malmesbury Park Rd on the site of a former laundry.
By 1935 the business had been purchased by a Canadian businessman named W Garfield Weston who had taken over his father's bakery business and who was now expanding into Britain.
By 1937 he had acquired 15 bakery plants across the country which had been unified as 'Allied Bakeries', mass producing bread in large, modern baking factories.
Weston later founded Associated British Foods, incorporating a whole range of brands across the world and many household names in Britain including Ryvita who's main factory is in Poole.
The Wilkins factory at Malmesbury Park Rd was extended at various times over the years and by the 1970s was producing tens of thousands of loaves a day from two large production plants situated on the top floor of the main factory. The lines ran 24 hours a day, only closing for maintenance at 6am on Saturday morning before starting up again frst thing Sunday morning.
The loaves were sent via a conveyor system to the ground floor where they were sliced, bagged and despatched. Also on the ground floor was a confectionary department that produced bread rolls, doughnuts, sausage rolls, currant buns and other goods for the network of local shops that they still ran across Bournemouth, and for other customers.
They regularly produced over 2 million hot cross buns for the Easter market and also had a specialist cake decorating department that made and decorated cakes to order.
As well as producing for their own shops Wilkins also mass produced bread under various Allied Bakeries brands such as Sunblest, Allinson, Mighty White, Hi Bran, Betabake, Slimcea, Kingsmill and Hovis as well as supplying a lot of the major supermarkets.
The company employed up to 250 people at any one time across in house departments such as baking, machine operating, hygiene, drivers, maintenance engineers, mechanics, office staff and building maintenance, with many hundreds, and probably thousands, being employed over the years.
Until the early 1980s wages were still paid in cash with the money being delivered to site by an armoured van with each individual wage packet being made up in the main office block. An announcement was made over the tanoy for employees to remain inside the factory whilst the wages were being delivered. From 1983 wages began to be paid directly into employees bank accounts.
In the late 1980s the confectionary department closed along with the shops, and in 1994 it was announced that the bakery was to close down in two phases with production being transferred to large super bakeries in the London area. Production finally ceased with a second wave of redundancies in 1995.
The site remained as a distribution centre until 2007 with bread being delivered by lorry from other bakeries with the depot moving to the Ferndown Industrial Estate where it still operates.
The Malmesbury Park Rd premises were demolished in 2007 and replaced over the following 18 months by The Granary housing development that resulted in the creation of Chelsea Gardens and Wilkins Gardens.
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A manufacturing plant complex built in the International Modern style, consisting of rectangular
blocks with flat steel deck roofs, salmon and red brick, steel framed windows and cement sheet
cladding. There are entire curtain walls of concrete breeze blocks. There are lighting standards
with conical luminaries with dish caps. Signage is supported on a rolled hollow section steel
frame. The buildings are set within lawns with native planting at the entrance, a rock garden,
pool, and possible sculpture remnant.
The factory is centred on a 250-metre long main processing building flanked by various
storage and administration buildings. The whole complex demonstrates a unity of design in its
use of a low brick wall surmounted by corrugated cement sheeting or steel framed glazing.
Most south facing walls are completely glazed from the brick dado to the roof, while the north
facing walls and some south facing ones have a single strip of glazing along the top of the wall.
The brick dado is evidently designed to prevent damage to the fragile cement sheeting and so
is used only at the lower level. However, as a stylistic feature, this has also been employed in
the administrative buildings.
The production line is expressed by the long low main production building, with the tall milling
and mixing structure at the eastern end, where raw materials are prepared for processing, a
small tower housing the steam accumulator a short distance along, and the large storage and
dispatch buildings extending across the western end.
The administration block lies between the production building and Rowsley Station Road, with
a gatehouse and openwork, concrete block wing walls identifying the main entrance.
The brown coal and wood waste fired boiler is a prominent feature at the eastern end of the
site. This fully glazed wall to the north and south broken by strips of louvred venting and with a
probably accidental random checker pattern created by different coloured glass panes. The
steel chimney stands just south of the boiler house.
The elements that contribute to the significance of the site are those features constructed as
part of the original design (as shown in the representative design perspective from 1960) as
follows:
Gatehouse & Administration Block
Amenities Block
Boiler House
Bicycle Shed and Factory sign
Chipper House
Main Factory Building
Warehouse
Workshop and Store
Factory Supervision
The setting of the place including the boundary trees and rock garden at the front of the site
also contribute to its significance.
Comparative Analysis:
The style of the complex is derived from the Bauhaus influenced industrial or institutional
complexes generally in the United States, such as, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,
Illinois (Mies van der Rohe 1939-1956) and General Motors Technical Institute, Warren,
Michigan (Eliel and Eero Saarinen 1946-55). Local comparisons include factories, such as,
ETA Foods, Ballarat Road, Braybrook (Frederick Romberg 1957-60), Australian Paper Mills,
Fairfield, General Motors, Dandenong and various oil refinery complexes. The survival of boiler
houses in factory complexes is rare, as are glazed curtain walls from this period.
Significance:
What is significant?
The CSR Mill designed by T. H. McConnell, which opened in 1960, located at 25 Rowsley
Station Road, Maddingley. The following elements contribute to the significance of the place:
• Gatehouse & Administration Block;
• Amenities Block;
• Boiler House;
• Bicycle Shed and Factory sign;
• Chipper House;
• Main Factory Building;
• Warehouse;
• Workshop and Store;
• Factory Supervision; and
• The setting of the place, including the boundary trees and rock garden at the front of the
site.
How is it significant?
The former CSR Mill, 25 Rowsley Station Road, Maddingley is of local historical and aesthetic
significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The former CSR Mill, 25 Rowsley Station Road, Maddingley is of historical significance as the
embodiment of an industrial process and capital investment in a semi rural location. The
factory officially opened in 1961 by State Premier at the time Mr H. E. Bolte demonstrates the
decentralisation policies of the Liberal Government during the 1950s and 60s. The complex is
of historical significance for its associations with the development of employment and industry
in the former Bacchus Marsh Shire, which demonstrates the utilisation of valuable resources in
the area.
Found in an old factory in Trier.
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Inside the factory was pretty bare, asbestos removal was going on and all signs of its former use appear to have vanished.
The potato flour factory "De Centrale" has been abandoned since 1964 and is still standing straight which is pretty rare in The Netherlands since all they do is build build build in this country.
The Custard Factory is now home to Zellig.
Six-bay centre of 1902 with buff terracotta arches and windows, ornate lettering and a rich shaped gable with a ship in tilework. Parapet cut out like a pie-crust, waiting for custard.
From Pevsner Archiectural Guides Birmingham by Andy Foster
Devonshire House is a Grade II listed building.
1902. Red brick and terracotta with some stone dressings. Four storeys plus attic;
3 bays. Ground floor of terracotta with 6 windows in recesses with ause-de-panier
arches, those of the 2 outside bays with ogee gablets. The 3 storeys above are
separated vertically by thin polygonal shafts with decorative finials which divide
the bays, and horizontally by wide bands of brick to the outside and of terracotta
to the centre. In the centre, the bands inscribed 'Alfred Bird and Sons Limited/
Devonshire Works/1837 and 1902' with foliage. Within the grid of shafts and bands,
the first floor with couplets of 2-light transomed windows with arched lights and
the second and third floors with central windows of cross type and outer couplets
of arched windows. Arched parapet with, over the centre bay, a shaped gable with
2 arched windows, tilework of a ship in full sail and little pinnacles. Left and
right of this composition, later wings of lesser interest, that to the left of 2,
that to the right of 8 bays. To the left again, railings with the Bird's custard
motif in them.
Devonshire House - British Listed Buildings
Sky billboard on the right - Central Switch to Better.
Today, I attended a symposium in the former Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam. This industrial monument is a nowadays a very inspiring environment for all kind of small creative companies, and houses a meeting and event centre as well. In the twentieth century it was a factory for processing coffee, tea and tobacco.
The buildings are built between 1925 and 1931, inspired by Russian constructivism. A perfect location for architectural photographers, especially when glass is the theme.
ODC - Theme (19-09-2012): Glass
Hakodate factory is an old factory site which is completely renovated (but still has the feeling of old days). All the factory storages have shops inside. When you walk there it looks like you are somewhere on the old streets of some European city.
Storage tanks of some sort at the SCA factory (note the comical 'This Way Up' sign) in Stowfield, on the Gloucestershire-Herefordshire border.
Tile Hill factory Standard Triumph 1959. Exterior view of the works showing the staff entrance. MG Magnette ZA, Austin A55 Mk II and Standard Vanguard Vignale parked outside.
Collection: Canley
Date: 1959
Reference Number: T035371
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A proper chocolate factory.
"An important industry in the town is Cadbury's chocolate factory. The J.S. Fry and Sons business merged with Cadbury in 1919, and moved their factory in the centre of Bristol to Keynsham in 1935. As Quakers, the factory was built in a 228-acre greenfield site with social facilities, including playing fields and recreational sports grounds. Called Somerdale after a national competition in 1923, Keynsham Cadbury is the home of Fry's Chocolate Cream, the Double Decker, Dairy Milk and Mini Eggs, Cadbury's Fudge, Chomp and most importantly, the Crunchie. According to Cadbury employees (or 'Chocolate Welders' as they are locally known), the Crunchie Machine makes enough bars to stretch to the Moon and back every week".
mmmmmmmmmm.... Crunchie. *Gargling drool*