Lallian's Mill, Birmingham August 08

[Virusman26]

After MANY months of looking and biding my time, I finally had the chance to get into the bast looking mill in the area. Diluted and myself had already taken advantage of the bad weather and re-explored a glass factory on the other side of town. We did the usual and grabbed a bite at our fave pub, then off for a rainy afternoon of reccying.

Result with this one. Last used for the production of Indian food-stuffs, but originally may have been tied into the very popular local breweries. At the time of it's construction, there were around 10 local brewing companies, so it's possible it may have been used as a malting mill to supply the local breweries. I'm still looking into the records to find out if that is actually true.

(taken earlier this year!)

Cheers for looking, and another great explore with diluted!

Full set of pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8776781@N02/sets/72157607039742722/

 

[sqwasher]

Nice set of pics & well done for getting in! Some of those shots look like pipe city!

 

[samsmeg123]

excuse my language but my god you need to show me some of these sites, absolutely amazing!

 

[Foxylady]

Fantastic looking mill. Absolutely love the stairs shot. Good stuff, VM.

 

[Dystopia]

Pretty! I'd be interested in nosing round this one myself cos I always pass it on the train.

 

[The Pirate]

Great stuff that place looks in good shape...WP

 

[Virusman26]

It's actually not in too bad a way. Some of the floors on the upper levels are somewhat "dodgy", but most of it is better than Miller's mill. Well worth the wait, but I'll be going back!!!!

 

[Neosea]

Nice one! Thanks for the photo's.

 

[tarboat]

Plenty of interest in there. Love the pipework, and the stair shot is class.

 

[Virusman26]

OK, finally getting somewhere with the actual history of this place.
It is not clear exactly when the building was originally built, and this is complicated by a renumbering of the street around 1880. Next door to it was a flour dealer in 1873, but there is no mention in the directory of anyone at the site. In 1876 the site was occupied by a "beer retailer"(John Reeve) and a brass founder. I suspect the building now there had not been built. In 1890 a company was formed to take over the brewery of John Hutton (who presumably built the brewery) and carried on till 1891 still calling themselves Huttons brewery. They went bust in 1891, but started up again in 1894 after combining with an Oldbury brewery. , calling themselves the City Brewery. they were listed in the directories of 1896 as that. By 1899 they'd gone bust again. In 1912 another "beer retailer" (William Webb) and a metal manufacturer were there, and by 1921 Willaim webb wqas still there , but there were 3 other firms also on the site.
And here's an old photo of how it would have been, living by the building..........

 

[Andymacg]

great pictures took me back to my childhood

infact in your last picture where the new industrial estate is .
There was a couple of gas holders there , and part of Saltley coke plant,I used to play in the old buildings as a nipper, as my grand parents lived just up the road from there, and there was the old tar works in Mount street with its rather nasty smelling blue mud that ate footwear all gone now tho