Ditherington Flax Mill Maltings in Shrewsbury
A preview of the up coming video documenting the Friends of the Flax Mill open day. Filmed by Surface Rush
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Song written and performed by Hickman and Quinn.
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Invest in Shropshire - Historic England Shrewsbury Flax Mill
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings
Ditherington Flax Mill, by architect Charles Bage, has been called the ‘grandfather of skyscrapers’ and is seen as the first skyscraper in the world, despite only being the equivalent of 5 storeys tall.
Its cast iron framework made it safer as it was less likely to catch fire and also pathed the way for the modern skyscraper.
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Glow People playing at Andy McKeowns Art installation . The Flax mill , Shrewsbury
Help restore the Flaxmill’s Jubilee Crown and save a Shrewsbury icon
Find out how you can help: We need your help to rescue a remarkable survivor from England’s history. Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings is the first iron-framed building in the world—a gas-lit, steam powered wonder; it was a place of revolution and innovation.
Today, the cast iron crown atop the Flaxmill Maltings is in need of care. The iron-work is fractured, the paint work peeling. The crowning glory of Shropshire’s industrial past is fading fast.
With your help, we can restore the Jubilee Crown and put it back where it belongs, taking pride of place high above the rooftops of the town. We need £26,000 to carefully remove the ornate cast iron coronet and transport it to a specialist metal conservation workshop for restoration.
The paint and decoration will be analysed and surveyed, fractured iron will be stitched and missing elements faithfully recreated. The crown will be redecorated and delicately painted in original colours before being carefully reassembled and reinstalled.
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings is one of the most important buildings of the modern age. Help restore the Jubilee Crown and save a remarkable piece of Shropshire’s history.
The best of Britain. Made in Shrewsbury.
Dodge Archery at Flaxmill in Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury’s historic Flaxmill Maltings building has a long and famous history for housing different industries and being the world’s oldest framed building. Now it is set to be known for playing host to the new game ‘Dodge Archery’.
Shrewsbury Flaxmill time capsule
Artwork, poems, a handmade brick, letters from the council and lottery tickets have all be buried high in the eaves of Shrewsbury Flaxmill to be found again in 100 years. Dozens of schoolchildren, who each carefully created a piece of creative writing or artwork, were guests of honour at a special ceremony held at the former Maltings in Ditherington which are currently undergoing a multi-million pound regeneration and restoration project.
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings. The worlds first complete iron framed building. Guided Tour.
Welcome to the Shrewsbury Flaxmill maltings. This is the worlds first complete iron frame building. This building led on to the evolution of skyscrapers. Built in 1797 as a Flaxmill. This building was used as a Flaxmill until 1887 and then became a maltings until it closure in 1987.
The site is now owned by Historic England and and visitor centre is run by friends of the Flaxmill Maltings.This fantastic building is now being restored to be used again today.
These this is very important building. and this is our last chance to see this building in the state that its in today before its complete restoration. In this Vlog we get to have a look around and then i go on a guided tour and learn all about the history of the Flaxmill Maltings and how it was used during the war.
In the last part of my Vlog i visit Heritage projects contracts where the crown had been restored back to its original state. So this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the crown up close and in kit form before it goes back up on the Flaxmill Maltings
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Thanks to friends of the Flaxmill Maltings.
Thanks to Penny Ward our tour guild.
Thanks to Heritage Project Contracts for letting me view the crown.
Flax Mill Movements
A film by Richard Foot & Misha Crawford
Shrewbury Flax Mill
This is my first year project which I am looking at the Flax Mill Maltings in Shrewsbury. It is a brief inside to peoples personal experiences surrounding the Flax Mill. I would just like to give a big thank you to the Friends of the Flax Mill Maltings community group, for their support and also supplying me with archive recordings and pictures.
Battle of Shrewsbury festival sends crowd back to 1400s
Thousands turned out for the fifth annual Battle of Shrewsbury festival which saw revellers get a glimpse of life in the 1400s.
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Time stands still flax mill dance of the workers
The Shrewsbury Flaxmill - New visitor centre pre-launch interview
Project director - Tim Johnston chats to shropshirelive.com about the new interactive visitor centre at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings - the world’s first iron framed building, built in 1769 - a forerunner to modern day skyscrapers.
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this footage was discovered somewhere on a cd somewhere near a river where there was no trace of the blighters that are filming.. honest
Flaxmill Maltings - restoration works
Video of a presentation by Nick Hill, National Conservation Projects Manager for Historic England, which was given to the Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings on the 5th of July, 2017.
Shrewsbury: beinghumanproject
The young people, from Shrewsbury College, featured here have engaged with the history and origins of collections and archive material from Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery. By tracking the migration of ideas and objects and giving individual responses to the stories of particular objects selected, they reveal their own relationships with the wider world. The film evidences moments of recognition of identity, community and cultural exchange.
Jill Impey's work focuses on the dissolution of borders and boundaries and the recognition of the human through communication of our collective history of migration.
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Shrewsbury is is the county town of Shropshire, England. The town is on the River Severn.
It is a market town whose centre has a largely unspoilt medieval street plan and over 660 listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th centuries. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town is the birthplace of Charles Darwin and is where he spent 27 years of his life.
Shrewsbury can be found 9 miles (14 km) east of the Welsh border, and it serves as the commercial centre for Shropshire and mid-Wales, with a retail output of over £299 million per year and light industry and distribution centres, such as Battlefield Enterprise Park, on the outskirts.
The A5 and A49 trunk roads come together as the town's by-pass, and five railway lines meet at Shrewsbury railway station.
The town is located 150 miles (240 km) north-west of London, far enough away from the Smoke to be interesting.
Shrewsbury's known history commences in the Early Middle Ages, having been founded c. 800 AD. It is believed that Anglo-Saxon Shrewsbury was most probably a settlement fortified through the use of earthworks comprising a ditch and rampart, which were then shored up with a wooden stockade. There is evidence to show that by the beginning of the 900s, Shrewsbury was home to a mint.
The Welsh besieged it in 1069, but were repelled by William the Conqueror. Roger de Montgomery was given the town as a gift from William, and built Shrewsbury Castle in 1074, taking the title of Earl. He founded Shrewsbury Abbey as a Benedictine monastery in 1083. The 3rd Earl, Robert of Bellême, was deposed in 1102 and the title forfeited, in consequence of rebelling against Henry I and joining the Duke of Normandy's invasion of England in 1101. In 1138, King Stephen successfully besieged the castle held by William FitzAlan for the Empress Maud during the period known as the Anarchy.
It was in the late Middle Ages (14th and 15th centuries) when the town was at its height of commercial importance. This was mainly due to the wool trade, a major industry at the time, with the rest of Britain and Europe, especially with the River Severn and Watling Street as trading routes. The Shrewsbury Drapers Company dominated the trade in Welsh wool for many years.
In 1403 the Battle of Shrewsbury was fought a few miles north of the town centre, at Battlefield. It was fought between King Henry IV and Henry Hotspur Percy, with the King emerging victorious, an event celebrated in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5.
Shrewsbury has also played a part in Western intellectual history, by being the town where the naturalist Charles Darwin was born and raised. The town is also home to the Ditherington Flax Mill, the world's first iron-framed building, which is commonly regarded as the grandfather of the skyscraper. Its importance was officially recognised in the 1950s, resulting in it becoming a Grade I listed building.
Shrewsbury, in the Industrial Revolution was also on the Shrewsbury Canal, which linked it with the Shropshire Canal and the rest of the canal network of Great Britain. Despite this, Shrewsbury escaped much of the industrialisation taking place in 19th century Britain due to its isolation from other large manufacturing towns and ports.
The core content contained in the above combined articles, was originally written by several A.N. Others + myself, then combined. It was then all re-formatted, re-edited, with the spelling & grammar corrected, then added to where pertinent, before being updated by me, myself, and I, to suit this subject matter more exclusively.
Thank you to all those knowingly or unknowingly who were involved in this.
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Flaxmill Maltings Community Arts Group animation workshop, with MediaActive.
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4K. Shrewsbury is is the county town of Shropshire, England. The town is on the River Severn.
Shrewsbury is a market town whose centre has a largely unspoilt medieval street plan and over 660 listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th centuries. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town is the birthplace of Charles Darwin and is where he spent 27 years of his life.
Shrewsbury can be found 9 miles (14 km) east of the Welsh border, and it serves as the commercial centre for Shropshire and mid-Wales, with a retail output of over £299 million per year and light industry and distribution centres, such as Battlefield Enterprise Park, on the outskirts.
5 railway lines meet at Shrewsbury railway station.
The town is located 150 miles (240 km) north-west of London, far enough away from the Smoke to be interesting.
Shrewsbury's known history commences in the Early Middle Ages, having been founded c. 800 AD. It is believed that Anglo-Saxon Shrewsbury was most probably a settlement fortified through the use of earthworks comprising a ditch and rampart, which were then shored up with a wooden stockade. There is evidence to show that by the beginning of the 900's, Shrewsbury was home to a mint.
The Welsh besieged it in 1069, but were repelled by William the Conqueror. Roger de Montgomery was given the town as a gift from William, and built Shrewsbury Castle in 1074, taking the title of Earl. He founded Shrewsbury Abbey as a Benedictine monastery in 1083. The 3rd Earl, Robert of Bellême, was deposed in 1102 and the title forfeited, in consequence of rebelling against Henry I and joining the Duke of Normandy's invasion of England in 1101. In 1138, King Stephen successfully besieged the castle held by William FitzAlan for the Empress Maud during the period known as the Anarchy.
It was in the late Middle Ages (14th and 15th centuries) when the town was at its height of commercial importance. This was mainly due to the wool trade, a major industry at the time, with the rest of Britain and Europe, especially with the River Severn and Watling Street (The A5) as trading routes. The Shrewsbury Drapers Company dominated the trade in Welsh wool for many years.
In 1403 the Battle of Shrewsbury was fought a few miles north of the town centre, at Battlefield. It was fought between King Henry IV and Henry Hotspur Percy, with the King emerging victorious, an event celebrated in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5.
Shrewsbury has also played a part in Western intellectual history, by being the town where the naturalist Charles Darwin was born and raised. The town is also home to the Ditherington Flax Mill, the world's first iron-framed building, which is commonly regarded as the grandfather of the skyscraper. Its importance was officially recognised in the 1950's resulting in it becoming a Grade I listed building.
Shrewsbury, in the Industrial Revolution was also on the Shrewsbury Canal, which linked it with the Shropshire Canal and the rest of the canal network of Great Britain. Despite this, Shrewsbury escaped much of the industrialisation taking place in 19th century Britain due to its isolation from other large manufacturing towns and ports.
The core content contained in the above combined articles, was originally written by several A.N. Others + myself, then combined. It was then all re-formatted, re-edited, with the spelling & grammar corrected, then added to where pertinent, before being updated by me, myself, and I, to suit this subject matter more exclusively.
Thank you to all those knowingly or unknowingly who were involved in this.
Flaxmill Maltings Timeline
The history of Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in relation to local, national and international events.