Quenby Price/Cargills Grain Store, Bedfordshire - September 2010

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In 1910 R.Quenby & Sons were first listed as millers after buying a 21 year lease on a local mill in Bromham, Bedfordshire. In 1938 they became a registered company as Quenby Price Limited. In 1969 they moved out of the mill and into nearby Turvey Station that had closed in 1962 (the last train left this station in March 1962) as a result of Dr. Richard Beeching's 'Beeching Bombshell' report that resulted in more than 4,000 miles of railway and 3,000 stations being closed over a 10 year period. (During 1962 780 miles of track were closed across the country). The station buildings were used as offices but sadly they did demolish most of the platform.

In 1971 Quenby Price Limited leased the orignal Bromham Mill buildings, mill house and 6½ acres of land to Bedfordshire County Council as a picnic site, selling them to the council two years later. After Quenby Price moved out, the Mill was taken over by artisans making pottery and leather goods until a fire broke out on 20 Feb 1974. Bromham Mill is now a popular Bedfordshire tourist destination

The Turvey Station site grew over the years under the name Quenby Price and many of the original buildings were demolished and rebuilt to keep up with mechanisation and modernistation techniques in agriculture. The company changed hands several times over the years, falling into the hands of Unilever under the name United Agricultural Merchants (BOCM Silcock Ltd). I was lucky enough to have a tour of the site in the early 1980's when it was fully operational and remember visting the old silo building and climbing the ladders to a high dusty gallery (long demolished).

The site changed hands again several times before being finally taken over by Cargills PLC and then ultimately its closure several years ago, it now lays derelict having been 'made safe' and also fairly well stripped by travellers.

The site comprises of two wet grain storage bins, a pre-cleaner, two grain driers, six storage silos with 10,000 tonnes of grain storage and two despatch bins. Everything is linked with grain elevators, conveyors and horizontal augers. In addition to this are workshops, admin buildings offices and a Laboratory.


UPDATE - March 2011
This site has been levelled to the ground over the last three weeks, totally demolished, nothing exists.

There was a development company involved who bought the site several years ago and I suspect it will soon be redeveloped as a residential site.


Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy the pix

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UPDATE - March 2011
This site has been levelled to the ground over the last three weeks, totally demolished, nothing exists :mad:


I've kept this place quiet for a very long while to try and avoid getting it 'chavved', I also intentionally left out most of the history when I first posted my report.

Now its been demo'd I've added the full history/location in my original post as to my knowledge this site has never been reported anywhere else online so the historical info is now vital.

I will also add a couple of photo's here of its final sad state in the next few days.

The aerial shot below is what used to be there...

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Nice one guys :)
i missed this when first posted
and agree great shame its gone me and T starnger looked at this last summer but was short on time and kept meaning to get back :( same old story
Looks like there was alot more to it than i thought .
Ps still waiting on the lift tower will shout out if i get possitive reply

SK :)
 
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