View from SE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of main building of flour mill with number 30 Waterloo Quay in background

Description View from SE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of main building of flour mill with number 30 Waterloo Quay in background

Date 3/3/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 717827

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Flour Mills, Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen This group of buildings was built in the mid 19th -/early 20th century, only a few yards away from the north quay of the Victoria Dock, opened in 1848, at which grain ships could berth. It seems likely that the mills were originally built with grindstones, but that roller milling was adopted when that technique took over. This shows the Waterloo Quay frontage of the L-plan westernmost part of the complex, from the south east. Tie-plates on the rear wing of this building are dated 1907, which is probably the date of construction of this block, which may well have been a roller mill. These mills were disused in 1970, but were reconditioned in the mid 1970s to serve as offices for the Wood Group, the leading Scottish firm in the North Sea Oil business. They made a base for their oil-rig supply vessels on Waterloo Quay, opposite these mills. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/4/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/717827

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