Henry Simon Ltd

Wheat

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2Built one of the largest automated (fl our) mill complexes ever to be built in London and housed a forest of machinery, shoots, ducts and pipes. Unusually for an abandoned industrial complex, some of this equipment - dating largely from the 1950s - still remains (Plates 4 and 5). The, now defunct, machinery was installed by Henry Simon Ltd of Manchester, one of the pioneers of the roller milling process, and adds to the building’s signifi cance as an urban industrial monument."

"The increasing use of imported grain was accompanied by technological development, predominately a shift in techniques from stone-milling to roller-milling which then allowed the use of continuous production. The rapid growth in the process was due to the rise of three engineering companies: J. Harrison Carter (from 1888 E.R. & F. Turner) of Ipswich, J.S & C.J. Robinson of Rochdale and, above all, Henry Simon of Manchester, a Silesian with experience of industry in Germany, Russia and France, who settled in Manchester in 1860. Henry Simon installed seven major plants in Liverpool between 1881-4 and, in 1899, his company built Millennium Mills at Birkenhead for William Vernon & Sons"