The building by the river Smestow is on the site where there were iron workings from the seventeenth century. There are claims that Mr Green’s forge used the iron produced by Dud Dudley.
Iron working continued here into the nineteenth century, using the stream as a source of water power. The opening of the Staffs & Worcs canal will have helped transport (this picture was taken from the canal towpath at Greensford).
The works was rebuilt as a corn mill in the late nineteenth century. It carried on working until the mid-1920s, and was converted into apartments in the 1980s.