Creech St Michael Paper Mill

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    Chris Bennett
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    Mill Creech St Michael Paper Mill
    Address Creech St Michael, Taunton, Somerset,
    Nat Grid Location ST 268253
    Companies A & R Sommerville & Co.; Purnells; British Printing Corporation; Creech Paper Mill and others
    English Mill Excise No 1875
    Status Shut during 1970 to 2015
    Est. Papermaking Start Date 1873
    Date Closed Sep-1993
    Links
    Link1 somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk
    Link2 http://www.creechstmichael.net

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    #637
    Daven
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    Something went wrong with the closure date. I think it was 1993.

    #850
    Chris Bennett
    Keymaster

    Hi Daven

    Have modified Creech entry – you are correct.

    Have had email from Tony Cornish

    I wanted to mention that when I worked in the UK I used to deal with a Mill at Creech in Somerset called Robert Somerville. They made woodfree uncoateds on a single machine. The reason I probably remember them is that once they phoned us to apologise about the funny “squiggly lines” on an order they had supplied to us, which they told us, as they took their water from the river alongside the Mill, was from baby eels, I think that they are called elvers, swimming up the wire.

    As I recall the quality was generally on the low side but acceptable.

    enough said!

     

    #851
    Chris Bennett
    Keymaster

    Entry from 1967 Directory of Papermakers1967 Directory of Pakermakers Witherby & Co p41

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