Reply To: Vale Paper Mill (Horwich)

I remember Cooke & Nuttall paper mill in Horwich very well. My father, John Ralph Ainscough, started work there in 1939 as a laboratory assistant and, after being demobbed from the RAF in 1946 and working at the Edward Collins paper mill in Glasgow, returned to Horwich in 1955, becoming Chief Chemist at Cooke & Nuttall. The mill was reached by a narrow lane (Star Lane) running off Crown Lane, and I visited the laboratory and the machine rooms several times between 1951 and 1957.