Star Paper Mill (Feniscowles)

Star Paper [In-house Magazine] Christmas 1959

Less papermaking in this edition – more social commentary. Still covering Star in Blackburn and Yorkshire PM in Barnsley.

Contents:

3 Editorial
5 A Word from the Chairman
8 Nazareth
11 Visit of the Kymmene Board
14 Mr. H. G. Salisbury
16 Competition
17 Gunthwaite Estate
19 Obituaries
20 Holiday Snaps Competition
32 Busman’s Holiday
35 Help Yourself to a Healthy Mouth
37 Lines suggested by a Spelling Bee
45 Blackburn Markets
48 News Items
59 Letters to the Editor
61 Fire at Barnsley

1959 was a different era, but with uncertainties. The Editorial, by J. C. S. Buckley, starts with a positive note:-

This is a world and this is a time when anything can happen.
As the year opened the world was edging to the brink over Berlin, production in the U.K. was stagnating and the weather had been bad for ever. Now (November) MacMillan has been to Moscow, Eisenhower has been to England and Kruschev has done a Cook’s Tour of the heart of Capitalism. Britain is booming and the summer was such as we have never seen.

The peripheral functions in the mill, which was not a large one, included some that have disappeared now. For example, there is this news item:

Brian Walker assistant in the photographic section Star Mills, who left us in September, and is now a “ fully fledged ” press photographer at Doncaster with the Yorkshire Evening News.

4, Woodlands, Cherry Tree. Dear Sir,
We would like to express our thanks, at the gift of a toy hot water bottle for our daughter Deborah, it will come in very handy during the coming winter.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. & Mrs. R. J. BRIAN.
We are so glad that these T.H.W.Bs. [Toy Hot Water Bottles] continue to be found useful.

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