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Hi

I have grandparents who when they got married their occupations where described as 'flour mills mixer' and 'flour mills hoister'.

This was in 1918 so I was wondering where the flour mills may have been in the Tranmere Birkenhead area as I would have thought they wouldn't have travelled far for work.

Any suggestions of which and where these mills may have been.

thanks homerj

Pretty sure the flour mills are what is now the east float apartments near the four bridges.

Quite right, Chorizo; not only the East Float Apartments either. A useful thread here:
https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/358302/The_Great_Float_Flour_Mills.html

hey guys
thanks again, I was going to take a wander down there to do some pics but as the weather is a bit cold i'll settle for looking at the older pictures on that other thread ;-)

Nothing much left to see, as I remember. I do remember them in full frenetic operation in the 1940's. At the time, we just accepted that they were there, probably without realising the extent of the operation.

Yeah it ended up as spillers in the end, stank of dog food:-)

Hi just to add that i worked in the spillers flour mill in 1966, as has already been said the site is now flattened , it was known locally as pauls mill. There was also a flour mill in corporation road birkenhead that was j r ranks mill.That mill was on beaufort road the continuation of corporation road.

Remember the story years ago of a woman who was in bed downstairs in Livingstone Street, her hubby was away fighting, when the flour mills got hit in the Birkenhead blitz. A paving stone from the mills came through her window and landed beside her in the bed, missing her by inches. Lucky woman. I can remember the woman but not her name.