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Oil seed crushing in Hull
Many of Hull's famous buildings, sites and people are all linked to the oil seed crushing industry, among others: the Wilberforce House museum, the Pease Warehouse flats, the Windmill public house, Joseph Rank, Blayde’s House in the High Street, are all, in some way, associated to the oil seed enterprises.
The process of oil seed crushing has existed since the late 14th Century; however, in Hull one of the first known references is in the 16th Century. In 1525, John Henryson, alderman of “the Kynges towne upon Hull”, bequeathed to his son John his “oile mylne with the cisterns of leede that I have” and stipulated that “my sone shall deliver to Agnes my wife, half the oile that shall be made of the sede that I have of this yeare”. Thus the oil seed crushing industry was already established in Hull by the early 16th Century.
At its simplest, this industry involves the importation (although some were grown locally) of oil bearing seeds such as rape, hempseed, linseed, cottonseed and soya beans. Various processes such as crushing and pressing are employed to extract the vegetable oil for use in the manufacture of paint, soap, linoleum, margarine and cooking oils; the residue being used for cattle-cake animal feed, manure and fertiliser.
Words: Christopher Ketchell
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