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Wright's Flour Mill is located in Wharf Road,
Ponders End Ponders End is the southeasternmost part of Enfield, London, Enfield, North London, north London, England, around Hertford Road west of the Lee Navigation, River Lee Navigation. It became Industrial suburb, industrialised through the 19th centur ...
, Enfield. It is Enfield's oldest working industrial building.


History

Some of the present buildings date back to 1789 and include the brick Georgian miller's house and offices flanking a 3½-storey
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of brick and white
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. There has been a mill here since at least the late 16th century and possibly
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. George Reynolds Wright took full control of the mill in 1870. It was originally powered by a backwater of the
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: in 1913 owing to construction work at the nearby
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the water supply which powered the millstones was cut off. The machinery was then converted to
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. Since then further improvements have been made.


Today

The business is still owned by the Wright family making it
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's only family owned flour mill North London Chamber of Commerce
Retrieved November 22, 2007 The company mill flour for several family-owned bakeries in the locality.


External links


G. R. Wright & Sons



Ponders End flour mill conservation area


Further reading

*'' Buildings of England'' London 4: North by Bridget Cherry and
Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (195 ...
p 451


References

Enfield, London History of the London Borough of Enfield Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Enfield Watermills in London {{London-struct-stub