Little Paxton, Paper Mill 1897
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Photo ref:
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Vast quantities of water are required to manufacture paper, hence the situation of the paper mill at St Neots on the Great Ouse. But whilst a lot of Victorian industrial architecture has a certain charm, there is certainly none apparent here.
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Memories of Little Paxton, Paper Mill 1897
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My grandfather, Charles Lawrence, was manager of the St Neots paper mill during much of the 1940s. He formerly worked at the Dover mill and brought a great many workers from there to St Neots in (I believe) 1939. While at St Neots, he and my grandmother resided in a lovely house on the banks of the Ouse in Eynesbury where, during the war, various members of their family also dwelt. Me too. I was born in the house in 1943.
My great-grandfather Ogilvie Bricknall was the manager of this mill at the turn of the century. He was a great papermaker and had moved to St Neots with his family from Longforgan in Perthshire. His son James was assistant manager in 1911 and the mill employed his two daughters as clerks.
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