wpw018858 WALES. Courtaulds Ltd., Aber Works, Flint, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

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Title [WPW018858] Courtaulds Ltd., Aber Works, Flint, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.
Reference WPW018858
Date
Link Coflein Archive Item 6378118
Place name
Parish
District
Country WALES
Easting / Northing 323620, 373080
Longitude / Latitude -3.1448523850802, 53.248953712647
National Grid Reference SJ236731

Pins

Waste tips of New Flint Colliery

Class31
Monday 6th of August 2012 10:43:48 PM
Swinchiard Walk

Class31
Monday 6th of August 2012 10:37:10 PM
Gatehouse still extant.

Class31
Monday 6th of August 2012 10:07:42 PM
Building still extant with rainwater hoppers dated 1909.

Class31
Monday 6th of August 2012 10:07:06 PM
Building is now named Enterprise House and has it's own website which even includes floorplans (Not to scale)

Class31
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 08:05:18 AM

User Comment Contributions

The excessively high chimney was not for getting rid of the boiler house smoke but more for getting rid of the fumes from the viscose production. The foul smelling fumes had to be carried as high as was possible with brick built chimneys at that time.

Triggy
Friday 17th of January 2014 12:51:40 PM
View looking south.

British Glanztoff built an artificial silk mill in Flint in 1907.

Class31
Tuesday 14th of January 2014 02:59:38 PM
The actual product produced was Viscose rayon.

Viscose was the main product produced, or processed, by almost all of the Courtaulds plants around the world.

Any photo having Courtaulds on the description on this site would be of a Viscose plant.



One does not have to be confused with the wrongly captioned photos on the Spondon tag which show the British Celanese site at Spondon wrongly named as Courtaulds. Courtaulds did not take over British Celanese until 1957.

British Celanese produced Cellulose Acetate based chemicals and fibres at its Spondon site.

Triggy
Tuesday 14th of January 2014 02:59:38 PM
Dear Class31, thank you for your fantastic contributions to this image, it's helped us confirm the site as Courtaulds Ltd Aber Works in Flint and it will be updated in due course. Thanks again for all your help.



Natasha Scullion

Britain from Above Activty Officer

Natasha Scullion
Wednesday 17th of April 2013 12:52:35 PM
The same photograph may be found on the RCAHMW Coflein website entitled Courtaulds Ltd, Aber Works Flint. The file reference number is the same WPW018858 Catalogue Number C878715.

Class31
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 07:33:25 AM
The Coflein page is also entitled British Glanztoff Works.

Class31
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 07:33:25 AM
This is the works in centre of shot in photograph WPW040156. This photo(WPW018858) is the right way round. The office building shown in both photos is still extant and can be seen today on Google earth. The gatehouse is also extant. The area has changed considerably in recent years and the bulk of the works has gone.

The photo WPW040156 is reversed which makes this identification difficult.

Class31
Monday 6th of August 2012 10:20:16 PM
Eureka

Class31
Monday 6th of August 2012 10:09:05 PM