Mc Dougall Self Raising Flour Factory Norton St Brum

[horsencart]

Does any one have information when the Mc Dougall Self Raising Flour Factory Norton St Brum close down its history is thus
1915? to 1953? Bradford and Sons Bakers,
1953? to ???? Mc Dougall Self Raising Flour Factory

all I need is the date it closed down

 

[mikejee]

Kellys lists it right up to the last issue in 1973. The Telephone directories list this address up to Nov 1971, but it is missing from the September 1972 edition.
Mcdougall Catering Foods are at 139 high st 1972- 1973 in the telephone directories.

 

[Astonian]

The only contribution i can add and after the closure was the bottom end of there mill was willie betts haulage started from there
whom now are internationioal known and seen on our motopr ways and roads
he bought a part of the ware housing and loading area and ground for parking his couple of lorries over night and at week ends if they was not used
i recall willie betts and seeing them parked up at the corner of norton street and park rd hockly but i also recall tjhe flour mill when operational
they would be parkrd behind the two high metal gates at the loading bay
way back then in those yearts gone bye and years later mr betts is still alive and lives here in droitwich getting on abit along with his wife whom i see from time to time
as they live close to me but when we jhad a shop his daughter worked for us for another of years before getting married and having kids
i know its the same family and that willie betts statred the haulage bussiness way back then
as upon our first meeting at the interview i gave her and asked where she was coming from she told me hockley
and it was then when she informed me of her father,s bussiness and i told her i knew the premises and her father from way back then
and then she told me he retired now for many years he sold the bussiness for a consideral amount of money he drives his wife around now as he his old
and as i said i se him and the family fairly oftern as they are really neibours that close
buts is all i can contribute about the flour mill of norton street best wishes astonian

 

[horsencart]

The last Kellys for Brum was 1973/4 and that is a problem any one researching after this date will have a problem

Kellys lists it right up to the last issue in 1973. The Telephone directories list this address up to Nov 1971, but it is missing from the September 1972 edition.
Mcdougall Catering Foods are at 139 high st 1972- 1973 in the telephone directories.

 

[terryb18]

These pics were posted on a facebook page, but no further information.

 

[horsencart]

I have a few photo to upload myself but it would be nice to add some information

These pics were posted on a facebook page, but no further information.

 

[jennyann]

Couldn't find much on McDougall's Flour. This site says there isn't much information available overall: https://togethertrustarchive.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-flour-connection.html

Bit more on Grace's Guide about McDougalls. No information of the Brum factory.https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/McDougalls

 

[horsencart]

I suspect that like many Birmingham company,s their deaths will have gone unreported, and will only live in the memory's of those still alive, not to worry I will just publish the photos with or without any information

 

[pbernard]

My father was the maintenance engineer at McDougalls from about 1957 when they took over the building from Bradford's Bakery until the very last when all packaging had ceased and it was used only as a distribution centre for McDougalls Three Cooks catering foods.
All the flour packing machinery had been removed and he was finally made redundant in late 1972.

 

[Astonian]

Has Roshan
As said on a history log they was in Norton Street just down off the lodge road oppersite the all saints hospital
as you go up the lodge road and over the hump bridge with the cannal running behind it down behind the Mc Dougles
it would have been about three parts down on Norton road which i may had was quite a large frontage
and on the end of there factory there was a very hughe shute which was always covered in white powder
It was probaly the lorries filling up there tanks possibly with the suction creating it to breeze through the vents of it
and if you do not mind me adding a little snippit to this story of Mc,s
but the early years there was a guy called mr Betts, namely William Betts , namely his one and only lorry
used to be used by them , and at the end of all the building there was a car park with there gates around it
and william betts used to keep his lorry parked there over the week ends in there compond
if you lived down end of park road you would have time seen his big lorry parkedup and locked in there
when ever you walked down park road
this today is where william betts transport started by mr willie butts himself and how this come to life
with me many years later i live by them and now know his daughter and wife as well
and through his daughter i learnt it and his daughter at one time over the years worked for my wife and myself
best wishes Astonian,,, Alan,,,