Thames Board Mills

A Memory of Purfleet.

From what I remember I used to work at TBM and was on shift work at NO 11 machine. Morris Tapsell was shift superintendent. We had wimpey in charge of the wet end and George Beany at the dry end. Quality control was in an office upstairs at the dry end. Allan Crissell and Johnny Christmas were another couple of guys that were there. This machine was a state of the art then and I believe it was the 1st Inverform machine of that type in the UK. It was run on a 3 shift basis so not much sleep was had by any of us. The machine used to make about 18 tons per hour with a 183 inch deckle. I wonder if anyone is still around from that era. I have looked at Google.earth and can't see where the TBM is. Perhaps someone can help as to where all the infrastructure is now?