Mainly Rank Hovis & Spillers Milling

One of Spillers’ Birkenhead based bulk wheat carriers used for taking imported wheat from grain terminals on docksides to the flour mill, also used for carting wheatfeed (the bran and residue after milling wheat into white flour) to animal feed mills. Wheatfeed is the basis for many types of animal feeds. By the middle of last century Spillers was operating from five different sites on Merseyside. Spillers Homepride Mill (formerly Pauls) at Dock Road Birkenhead in the background rear.

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