Where is the Lakeside Business Centre?

Lakeside Business Centre at 180 Lifford Lane, King's Norton, Birmingham, B30 3NU

In brief

The former site of a Victorian paper mill at Kings Norton Junction (where the Stratford-on-Avon Canal joins onto the Worcester & Birmingham Canal).

Sherbourne Mill (February 2023). Photography by Elliott Brown

Sherbourne Mill - history

James Baldwin & Sons established their second paper mill here as Sherbourne Mill in the 19th century (the other one was in Ladywood on Morville Street / Browning Street, now flats).

Sherbourne Mill (February 2023). Photography by Elliott Brown

This one on the Kings Norton estate was sold by the family to a syndicate and it became an independent paper making firm, the Kings Norton Paper Mill Ltd, while the Baldwins concentrated their work back at the Birmingham site. But KNPM Ltd business closed in 1967.

Sherbourne Mill (February 2023). Photography by Elliott Brown

Much of the mill was demolished, and what remains now is operated as a small business park. For a time the Patrick Collection of vintage cars was housing in the main building for a time. The site is not generally open to members of the public.

Sherbourne Mill (February 2023). Photography by Elliott Brown

The mill pool and millrace survives to this day. You can see it from the towpath of the Stratford-on-Avon Canal (also called Stratford-upon-Avon Canal).

Mill Pool of Sherbourne Mill (September 2018). Photography by Elliott Brown