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First glimpse of Louth Station from Newbridge Hill for 65 years! See also aerial shot Image Pity about the new housing in front of the station, though I do not know what was there before. ABM Malt Kiln, a slightly less charismatic landmark than St. James' Church on the Louth horizon, has finally met its match and is being dismantled literally step by step, with the lowest section reduced to piles of mangled concrete and reinforcing rods. It is well past its sell-by date, and Aldi are planning to do everyone a favour by building a supermarket in its place. It has put up the good fight, and a demolition squad who moved in in about 2003 withdrew, seemingly with their tails between their legs, for the building remained intact, complete with its treasure trove of asbestos and its thick reinforced concrete walls. However it is not without its own fascinating and very impressive history. Construction began in 1949 and replaced the old maltings, which were built around 1870 and destroyed by German bombs in 1940. The new site had to be where its predecessor stood to qualify for war compensation. It took two years to finish the project, with post-war cement rationing slowing down the process. The production section was finished for malting to begin in 1952. The interior was an extraordinary honeycomb of 96 eight foot square, 90ft high storage chambers for barley and malt. Dalgety's took over ABM in 1972 then Paul's Malt in 1987. Their plans to expand production by building three huge new silos were refused in 1989 by East Lindsey District Council and on appeal, following bitter opposition from the Civic Trust and conservation minded councillors. Louth was producing 30,000 tonnes a year. In the late 1990s Paul's invested £30,000,000 in a new plant at Bury St Edmunds which increased production by 100,000 tonnes. Read more, and photos: http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/industrial/4541-abm-paul-maltings-louth.html#ixzz3GVZyJ87w Residents of housing developments in close proximity will be relieved that, finally, they will no longer be looking out at a vast and overbearing concrete wall. See also Image], Image] and Image For aerial shot of the Maltings and station see Image History of station, see: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/louth/index.shtml Aerial shot showing pre-war maltings and station: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw031927

Cut mark on the south-east end of Louth station building, now turned into apartments. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5721298 for a wider view and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm94050 for details of the mark.

There is a cut mark on the south-east end of Louth station building, now turned into apartments. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5721295 for a closer view and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm94050 for details of the mark.

Now the rubble and debris has been cleared a bit more of the station is to be seen than in Image, but maybe only until the replacement building goes up. This is the first time Louth Station has been visible from Newbridge Hill for 65 years! See also aerial shot Image Pity about the new housing in front of the station. It is visible because ABM Malt Kiln, a slightly less charismatic landmark than St. James' Church on the Louth horizon, has finally met its match and is being dismantled literally step by step. It is well past its sell-by date, and Aldi are planning to do everyone a favour by building a supermarket in its place. It has put up the good fight, and a demolition squad who moved in in about 2003 withdrew, seemingly with their tails between their legs, for the building remained intact, complete with its treasure trove of asbestos and its thick reinforced concrete walls. See also Image], Image] and Image For aerial shot of the Maltings and station see Image History of station, see: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/louth/index.shtml Aerial shot showing pre-war maltings and station: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw031927

See Image for previous picture and Image for history of the site and links to earlier stages of this project.

The Old Railway Station the last passenger train departed way back in 1970. Open for freight for another ten years before the railway was closed for ever. Now the station buildings have been converted into flats and the railway yard and land have new dwellings on them making it very hard to imagine that trains ever ran here.

Opened in 1848 by the Great Northern Railway on its line from Boston to Grimsby, this station closed in 1970, and is now private housing. Forecourt

Finally Aldi is open, said to be the biggest of its UK stores. It has attracted much interest and enthusiasm, leading to complaints by some that it is "only a supermarket". But we must never forget what stood there before. The story has been charted at length in this square - see Image

Now Converted into flats.