Sam has provided two magazines from Star in the 1950s. They are impressive for their wide-ranging content. Mostly about Star but also some articles about Yorkshire Paper Mill Barnsley which was in the group.
Some snippets from Spring 1955
Contents
3 Editorial
5 Meet the Y.P.M. Heater Crew
9 An Awkward Interlude
II Effluent
14 “ Sky-Pilot ”
17 Mr. E. G. Heilbron
19 Stars in Two Firmaments
22 Christmas Competition Result
26 Elbow Room
30 News about Books
32 A Century of Papermaking
36 Cuerdon’s Crazy Corner
38 A Whisper in the Pulp Stack
43 Welcome to Star Paper Mill
46 I’ll never forget
54 Star at Play
57 V.P.M. Sports and Social Section
59 Between Ourselves
69 Bouquets and Brickbats
Quite a lot about the people:
Mr. J. Booth, of the Y.P.M. boiler plant, retired on the 24th December, at the age of 77 years. “ Joe”, in his retirement, takes with him the good wishes of his workmates.
Sport
Sports Special—Feniscowles Edition (p54)
As this report is written, Blackburn Rovers (our last issue carried a team photograph) hit the headlines with an 8-3 defeat of Bristol—the Blackburn centre forward, Tommy Briggs scoring seven of the home team’s goals.
On the very same Saturday afternoon our own Star football team accomplished even greater things. With goals from James Wilkinson (3), Michael Kennedy (2) and Robert Holding (2), our team romped home to its first victory of the season at the expense of Y.M.C.A. “ B ” team with a score of 7-0.
It is to be hoped that readers, unlike the writer, will not be so tactless as to ask if the opposing team was at full strength. The reply given was that “ the linesman was one of them ; the referee was definitely on their side ; and their goalkeeper played like two men,” so we contend they had a full team.
Table Tennis Section (p58)
Our newly-formed table tennis club is now firmly on its feet, the first team having given away only one match out of the last seven.
Mill History
A Century of Papermaking (p32)
It has been said that, in a comparative sense, papermaking has always been ahead of science. Papermaking and engineering grew up together, the former often taking the lead in the process ; which perhaps explains why the papermaker had to wait for so long for a light to enable him to carry on throughout the night with his production.
Paper focused fiction
A Whisper in the Pulp Stack (p38)
The house magazine is a real blast from the past, with many surnames that represented papermaking families.
