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BALTIC FLOUR MILLS ARCHIVE FILE

BALTIC FLOUR MILLS ARCHIVE FILE
Archive Shelf Location 6A1(5)
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A box file containing the following files (NOTE: this is an attempt to collate all material on the original flour mill. It is still a work in progress and does not reflect our complete collection on the subject as yet):

BFM01 BALTIC: TIMELINE HISTORIES /BRIEF OUTLINES

.....01 Timelines from Gateshead Council website

.....02 The Baltic Flour Mill: A History from ‘Temporary Contemporary’

BFM02 RANK HOVIS ORGANISATION

.....01 Rank Hovis McDougall (Wikipedia)

.....02 J.Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (Wikipedia)

.....03 The Rank Family. Notes in timeline form with references (collated by Gary Malkin)

BFM03 WORKING HISTORY OF BALTIC FLOUR MILL

.....01 ‘Baltic mills open the gates to new ideas’ by Harry White in Activity, no 31, 1969

.....02 Article from Baltic Memories - Production lines; about the mill; bagging up; testing and baking; warehousing; bearing the load; the offices; when the wheat comes in

.....03 Printout from Gateshead Council website. Baltic flour mills

.....04 ‘Baltic mill comes of age’, Activity no.39, 1971

.....05 Baltic Building/History Tour Information (compiled by BALTIC staff 2008)

.....06 ‘Mayor Opens £1,500,000 Flour Mill’, Gateshead Post, no 129, April 28th 1950

.....07 Baltic Flour Mills advertisement 'After 80 years continuous progress Ranks still forge ahead with Britain's Latest Mill', Gateshead Official Handbook, 1955, p8

.....08 Drawing of the flour mill from the Gateshead Official Handbook, 7th edition (1950), p47

.....09 J.Rank (Newcastle) Ltd. Text and image from Gateshead Official Guide, 1955, p69-70

.....10 Baltic Flour Mills advertisement in Gateshead Official Guide, 1962, p 60 with text and duplicate image on p61

.....11 Baltic Flour Mills advertisement 'After 75 years continuous progress Ranks still forge ahead with Britain's Latest Mill', Gateshead Official Handbook, 1950, p2

.....12 'Mill Memories', BBC Tyne (web), 30 October 2008

.....13 'Check out Baltic 'talking couples'', The Journal (Newcastle), 2 October 2008

.....14 'Couples: Baltic employees past and present gathered yesterday as part of a unique art project' by David Whetstone in The Journal (Newcastle), 2 October 2008

.....15 Copy of letter from Gelder & Kitchen to F H Patterson (Borough Surveyors) dated 6 Jan 1939 .

....16 Copy of letter from North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd to F H Patterson - dated 17 Jan 1939

.....17 Copy of letter from Richards Butler & Co (solicitors acting on behalf of Joseph Rank Ltd) dated 19 January 1939. Subject - disputed land use

.....18 Copy of letter from Richards Butler & Co to F H Patterson dated 31 Jan 1939

.....19 Copy of letter from Gelder & Kitchen to F H Patterson dated 7 December 1945

.....20 Copy of letter from Borough Surveyor to Councillor G.C.Esther. Dated 31 Dec 1945

.....21 Copies of 2 letters from Borough Surveyor to Alderman McCretton and Cllr B Young respectively. Dated 7 January 1946

.....22 Copy of letter from Gelder & Kitchen to F H Patterson. Dated 16 Jan 1946.

.....23 Copy of letter from Borough Surveyor to Sadler Forster (Board of Trade). Dated 21 January 1946

.....24 Copy of letter from Borough Surveyor to Gelder & Kitchen. Dated 23 Jan 1946

.....25 Copy of letter from Gelder & Kitchen to Borough Surveyor. Dated 24 Jan 1946

.....26 Copy of letter from Samuel Butler and Co Ltd to the Borough Engineer. Dated 10 May 1946

.....27 Copy of letter from Samuel Butler and Co Ltd to F H Patterson. Dated 14 May 1946

.....28 Copy of letter from Gelder & Kitchen to Borough Surveyor. Dated 28 March 1947.

.....29 Copy of letter from Borough Surveyor to Gelder & Kitchen. Dated 3 April 1947

.....30 Copy of letter from Gelder & Kitchen to Borough Surveyor. Dated 10 April 1947. Details approx numbers of staff to be employed in mill.

.....31 Copy of letter from Borough Surveyor to Gelder & Kitchen. Dated 17 April 1947 granting permission for internal steel staircases.

.....32 Copy of technical notes regarding steelwork.

BFM04 WORKING MILL AND STAFF

.....01 TRUCKS AND DRIVERS OUTSIDE MILL c.1950

..........01 Trucks outside mill offices c.1950

..........02 Truck going up Mill Road

..........03 Trucks outside mill offices c.1950

..........04 Notes to photos

.....02 Factory tour with Joseph Arthur Rank

..........01 J A Rank signing an unknown document/J A Rank in a plant room

..........02 Tour of a room filled with weighing apparatus, with J A Rank and others

..........03 Staff photo (no names attached – J A Rank centre-right)

.....03 Images provided by Mr Hilton James

..........01 Notes to photos

..........02 Newcastle Tyne Bridge May 1982

..........03 Newcastle Quayside (1) May 1982

..........04 Mine Sweepers on the Tyne May 1982

..........05 Kittiwakes (1) on the West wall of Flour Mill

..........06 (Fishery Protection Mine Sweepers) Ship on the Tyne May 1982

..........07 Newcastle Quayside (2) May 1982

..........08 Kittiwakes (2)

..........09 Kittiwakes (3) building nests, Flour Mills Gateshead 1982

..........10 Joinery (1)

..........11 Joinery (2)

..........12 Joinery (3)

..........13 Joinery (4)

..........14 Joinery (5)

..........15 Joinery (6)

..........16 Photograph of original staff members

.....04 Image provided by Robert Straughton - Rookhow Photographic

..........01 Photograph of ship unloading at Baltic 1962

.....05 Page from Baltic Memories - 'Social Life' and 'New Homes on Tyneside'

BFM05 BALTIC MILL FIRE - 1976 - NEWS ARTICLES

.....01 ‘£500,000 blaze hits mill’ by Eddie Brown in The Journal, 19 January 1976, front page

.....02 ‘Mill hit by blaze’ (continuation of above article)

.....03 Notes on the fire by Darren Garrett for staff building/history tour (2008)

BFM06 MILLING MACHINERY

.....01 5 page document 'Chris Heath's Memories of the Company' BFM07

BALTIC MEMORIES

.....01 Baltic Memories itinery 1 May - 13 June (year?)

.....02 About the Baltic Flour Mill

.....03 Schedule for opening of exhibition ‘Baltic Memories’- Friday 30th April 1999

.....04 'Makers and Shakers - Proposals for BALTIC/Shipley Education Project' Press Release, March 1999

.....05 Letter seeking schools participation in paper-making workshops (The Baltic Papers)

.....06 Review of exhibition by Gina-Nina Anderson (unknown publication)

.....07 ’Tribute to the Baltic Mills worker’ by Peter Fairley in Evening Chronicle, 28 April 1999

.....08 ’Memories go through the mill’ by Kevin Douglas in The Gateshead Post, 5 May 1999, p4

.....09 Baltic Memories booklet

.....10 Baltic Memories or When a Tribute to Collective Memories Becomes a Promotional Tool by Maria Patsarika

.....11 'Memories' in B.INFO, published by BALTIC, 2002

BFM08 MAPS, PLANS, ELEVATIONS AND CROSS-SECTIONS OF MILLS

This folder contains digital photographic copies of the original plans for the flour mill. The originals are held in the Tyne & Wear Archives

BFM09 GELDER AND KITCHEN ARCHITECTS

.....01 Document entitled 'Alfred Gelder - Hull's Architect'

BFM10 UNUSED BFM11 WIDER HISTORICAL CONTEXT/QUAYSIDE-SANDHILL AREA

.....01 Bridge from Newcastle to Gateshead at High Level. Plan of proposed bridge by John & Benjamin Green Architects & Engineers (page 8 from an unknown source)

.....02 ‘Why the town of Gateshead and city of Newcastle developed here’

.....03 Record xcix- October. (1 double-sided A4 sheet detailing the 1850 fire of Newcastle and Gateshead.

.....04 Poster - North Eastern Railway to the continent. Antwerp to Rotterdam via Newcastle, and the Tyne Steam Shipping Company’s Steamers. Sept 1888

.....05 Newcastle Journal, 16 Nov to 23 Nov 1771 - front page (part) - detailing the flood of 1771

.....06 Gilchrist. Fordyce’s ‘Newcastle Song Book’ 1842. Song to the tune of ‘The Bold Dragoon’

.....07 photocopy of a drawing by W.H.Knowles, ‘The Cooperage. In The Close, Newcastle’. Nov 1884

.....08 photocopy of engraving by John Brand, ‘To the Right Worshipful John Erasmus Blackett Esq Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne. This view of the ruins of the bridge of that town as they appeared after the fall therof in November 1771...’

.....09 photocopy of engraving of ‘Newcastle from St.Mary’s, Gateshead’. After the construction of the Swing Bridge but before Tyne Bridge.

.....10 photocopy of engraving ‘The south-east prospect of Newcastle upon Tyne’. Pre-1771 flood.

.....11 Photocopy from unknown document giving a brief history of Newcastle and Gateshead, highlighting the economic supremacy of Newcastle and Gateshead’s stuggle to compete.

.....12 'The early importance of the quayside areas'

.....13 Two Accounts of the Great Fire: 'Great Conflagration and explosion at Newcastle and Gateshead' in The Illustrated London News, October 14th 1854, and 'October 6th 1854' from Thomas Fordyce - Local Records volume 3, published 1867.

.....14 ‘Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead during the recent conflagration’ enlarged print of handcoloured woodblock engraving from the Illustrated London News, 14th October 1854 (www.picturesofgateshead.co.uk/great_fire)

.....15 Census from 1851, copy of hand written document

.....16 Census from 1851, word processed document

BFM12 HISTORIC QUAYSIDE MAPS BFM13 UNUSED BFM14 BALTIC HISTORY TOUR NOTES BFM15 BALTIC HISTORY TOUR PRESS

.....’Take and insightful trip behind the scenes at BALTIC’ by Andrew Fenwick in Newcastle Life, 14 April 2008

.....’Step back in time at BALTIC’, NewcastleGateshead.com, 6 March 2008 (Note: Much of this information has been handed to the archive without proper catalogue references)

BFM16 UNUSED

BFM17 IMAGES OF BALTIC 1982-1987

.....01 1 of 3 images on transparency of Baltic Flour Mill in 1986 with Hovis neon sign on top of the front of the building WE HAVE MANY MANY MORE IMAGES FROM THE CONVERSION PERIOD IN DIGITAL, SLIDE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER FORMATS THAT ARE NOT LISTED HERE. There is a large selection available digitally on this database (suggestion: search for BALTIC and the year)

BFM18 IMAGES OF BALTIC 1998

.....00 UNKNOWN MONTH

..........01 Baltic Flour Mill before conversion c.1997 - 1998: 12 x colour transparencies (35mm strip)

..........Norman Stephens

..........02 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, 12 external colour images

..........03 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, 12 external colour images

..........04 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, 12 external colour images

..........05 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, 12 external colour images

..........06 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, 12 external colour images

..........07 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, enlarged internal colour print

..........08 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, enlarged internal colour print

..........09 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, enlarged external colour print

..........10 Baltic Flour Mill c.1998, enlarged external black & white print

.....01 JANUARY 1998

.....02 FEBRUARY 1998

.....03 MARCH 1998 ..........Elaina Thompson:

..........01 Baltic Flour Mill on first Impression

..........02 early 1998 – first impressions, Quayside wasteland

.....04 APRIL 1998

.....05 MAY 1998

.....06 JUNE 1998

..........Sally-Ann Norman

..........01 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Film 1, 15 colour images ..........02 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Film 2, 15 colour images ..........03 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Film 3, 15 colour images ..........04 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Film 4, 15 colour images ..........05 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Film 5, 15 colour images ..........06 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Film 6, 15 colour images ..........07 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Film 7, 15 black & white images ..........08 Baltic Flour Mill, 28 June 1998. Enlarged colour print from Film 5, image no.5

..........Norman Stephens

..........09 12 x colour images of interiors and exteriors of Baltic Flour Mills to document condition of buildings immediately before demolition and conversion

..........10 12 x colour images of interiors and exteriors of Baltic Flour Mills to document condition of buildings immediately before demolition and conversion .....07 JULY 1998

..........Sally-Ann Norman

..........01 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 01 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........02 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 02 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........03 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 03 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........04 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 04 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........05 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 05 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........06 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 06 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........07 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 07 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........08 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 08 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........09 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 09 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

..........10 Baltic Flour Mills (before conversion), 10 of 10 5x7" images taken from different angles

.....08 AUGUST 1998

.....09 SEPTEMBER 1998

.....10 OCTOBER 1998

.....11 NOVEMBER 1998

..........Elaina Thompson: BFM18_11_01 – BFM18_11_19

..........01 Interior of ground floor Baltic Mill, Silo - facing where Quayside is today

..........02 Noisy narrow steel stairs up to the top

..........03 Remnants of old Flour Mill industry, bin funnels

..........04

..........05 Detail of numbered funnel head

..........06 Intricate and complex grid pattern where the grain was stored

..........07

..........08 Ground floor towards Tyne Bridge where the scenic lifts now stand

..........09 Looking down to the ground floor

..........10 Top of the Silo

..........11 On top of the roof alongside the creaking ventilator hoods

..........12

..........13

..........14 Kittiwakes relocated behind the Baltic (seen left of centre of picture) as work in progresses

..........15 Securing the building before interior is taken out

..........16 Work begins

..........17

..........18 late 1998 – view eastwards from Tyne Bridge

..........19 winter 1998 – sunset, all quiet along Gateshead Quayside

.....12 DECEMBER 1998 BFM19 IMAGES OF BALTIC 1999

.....00 UNKNOWN MONTH

.....01 JANUARY 1999

.....02 FEBRUARY 1999

.....03 MARCH 1999

.....04 APRIL 1999

.....05 MAY 1999

.....06 JUNE 1999

.....07 JULY 1999

.....08 AUGUST 1999

.....09 SEPTEMBER 1999

.....10 OCTOBER 1999

.....11 NOVEMBER 1999

.....12 DECEMBER 1999

BFM20 IMAGES OF BALTIC 2000

BFM21 IMAGES OF BALTIC 2001

BFM22 IMAGES OF BALTIC 2002
Quantity 1
Formats Photocopies, Photographs
Keywords History, Gateshead Quayside, Baltic Flour Mills (Rank Hovis)

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