Colthrop Board Mill (Thatcham)

[Chris Bennett]

 

 

Mill	Colthrop Board Mill
Address	Colthrop Lane, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 4NJ
Nat Grid Location	SU 538664
Companies	Colthrop Board Mill; Reed Board and Paper Mill; Reedpack; SCA; Field Group; Mayr Melnhof Karton
English Mill Excise No	ND
Status	Shut during 1970 to 2015
Est. Papermaking Start Date	1799
Date Closed	2000
Links
Link1	http://www.28dayslater.co.uk
Link2	millsarchive.org/
Britain from Above	http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk

 

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[Richard Dalgleish]

Up until about 1987 Colthrop Board Mills was owned by Reed Paper and Board UK Ltd, (later Reed International) but then it became part of Reedpack, a MBO from Reed International.  Reedpack was then sold to SCA in 1991 and later that year Colthrop Board Mills along with Field Packaging bought themselves from SCA and for 2 years Colthrop was part of Field Group. Then in 1991, the mill was bought by Mayr Melnhof Karton in Vienna who owned and ran the mill until it closed down in 2000.

[Sheila Viner]

A superb history of Colthrop Mills has been written by a former employee, Robin Doe, containing many photographs of machinery, transport, workers plus clear diagrams of how the plant operated. Copies of the book can be obtained from the Mills Archive’s online bookshop: http://www.millsarchive.org.

 

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