An engineering marvel, the Ditherington Flax Mill was the world's first building to use cast-iron framing.
SHREWSBURY, England — For years, the old ghostly factory sat in quiet ruin, forlorn, moldering, home to pigeons and rats. But there was something remarkable hidden inside — and so in a feat of restoration, British conservationists have saved what they consider the “grandparent” of all modern skyscrapers.
Flax mills were profitable but risky investments. “It was a tinderbox,” Godfrey said, filled with steam-driven spinning machines that covered the floors with a combustible dust — in rooms lit by windows and candlelight, on machines lubricated by whale oil.John Marshall, a hard-driving industrialist and the first of the textile millionaires, had recently lost a wood-framed mill to fire.
The iron work for the mill was created at a nearby forge by a man named William Hazledine, heralded as the “Arch Conjurer,” a magician in the new tech of iron. It was his opinion that the building “might have been massively under-engineered by modern standards,” but was nonetheless genius, and has proved itself by surviving.Shrewsbury Flaxmill MaltingsAfter the malting operation closed, the building fell into disrepair. At one point, the structure was in such shabby shape that scaffolding had to be erected to keep it from collapsing on itself. The restoration took eight years and cost $33 million.
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