Langley Green Maltings - Gallery

Langley Green Maltings, Oldbury, West Midlands.

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd

Gallery: Langley Green Maltings

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  Maltings site up for sale in 2006
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  Roof detail
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  Two of six kiln vents
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  Roof gulley
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  Three more kiln vents
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  Barley bins and kiln vents
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  Classic kiln pagoda
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  Looking out over the Black Country
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  Three kiln vents
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  The façade beside the canal
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  The maltings was built in 1898 for Showells Crosswell Brewery
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  The maltings passed to W&D in 1944
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  When it closed in 2005, it was Britain's biggest floor maltings producing around 5000 tonnes a year
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  Beside the barley bins
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  Five kilns in this view
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  Facing the Titford Canal - at 511 feet above sealevel it is one of Britain's highest
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  More brickwork
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  The Bridge pub from the maltings
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  Architectural detail
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  Modern barley storage and the canal
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  Barley storage block
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  Detail of the modern building
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  Barley bins from across the canal
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  Grain storage and the old maltings
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  There is a lot of wood about
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  There is a lot of wood about
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  Please don't
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  On top of the grain bins
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  Barley screen
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  Schematic of barley plant
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  Details of the plant schematic
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  All empty
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  Bin feeding conveyors
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  Bin feeding conveyors
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  More conveyors
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  Collecting barley dust
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  Hopper above a xteep vessel
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  Inlet to steep vessel
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  One of six floors, each with two 9.2 tonne pieces on each
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  There are two malt houses with three floors in each
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  Detais of a column hread
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  No more malt to turn
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  Pretty chilly on a February day
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  Boby barrow for loading the kiln
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  Kiln loading conveyor
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  Inside a malt kiln
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  Inside a malt kiln
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  Malt kiln floor
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  Looking up a kiln vent
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  Emptying the plant
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  No more visitors

Langley Green Maltings in 2005

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