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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Hockley Station: gwrhd2623
The balcony store area in Hockley's old Inwards (or Bottom)
shed and warehouse in 1929. The warehouse had storage space for household names
such as Quaker Oats, Hovis Bread and Pilkington Glass. On the right the
Revolator apparatus was used for stacking reels of paper. The reels
of paper were imported in bulk from Canada and stored here for the Birmingham
Post and Birmingham Mail newspapers. Daily deliveries were made each morning to
the newspaper's printing works. It is likely that these reels of paper would
have been imported through the Liverpool Port Group (which included the port of
Birkenhead) before being brought to Hockley by rail. The 1933 Birmingham ABC
Railway Rates Book quotes exceptional rates for the transport of Paper from the
Liverpool Port Group in two ton loads and including cartage in Birmingham, at
17 shillings 6 pence (17s / 6d).
Robert Ferris
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