Oscott Colleges (old Oscott And New Oscott)

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Now that’s interesting because I was told the mill was knocked down c1780 and the stones were used to build a wall dividing fields so is this the same mill or a different mill

 

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My great aunt told me the story of the windmill and she lived at the farm from c 1910 and the mill was not in existence then because the grindstones that used to grind the cirn were used as flower pots

 

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I can now see Oldford Farm in the middle of the map surveyed in 1887. There was another mill at Perry Barr, and Upper Witton Mill on Hawthorn Brook, so maybe there could be others at an earlier date.

Holdford mill at that time had become Ludlow’s ammunition works.

 

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I can now see Oldford Farm in the middle of the map surveyed in 1887. There was another mill at Perry Barr, and Upper Witton Mill on Hawthorn Brook, so maybe there could be others at an earlier date.

Holdford mill at that time had become Ludlow’s ammunition works.

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This subsequently became kynocks then ICI then IMI

 

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The new Gatling Gun Co. purchased Holdford Mills at Witton from the liquidators of the National Arms and Ammunition Co in 1889.

The massive explosion of 1870 occurred at Messrs Ludlow, neighbours to the factory of G. Kynoch and Co (Lion Works, Witton), possibly a licensor to Ludlow. Later in December 1870 there was a fatal explosion at Messrs Kynoch.

 

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April 1917, Birmingham Daily Post.

In 1917 some portion taken from Oldford Farm for Ammunition Works (Post 101) Probably for the war effort?

 

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Oscott College….November 1844, the Pictorial Times.