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  • 20th February 2017 at 15:24 in reply to: Oakenclough Mill (Garstang) #650
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    We moved from Horwich to Lancaster in 1957, my father, John Ainscough, having been appointed Technical Director of the mill. The mill Managing Director was Harold Jackson, who drove an Aston Martin DB Mark 3, and the Financial Director was Edward Robinson. The firm was indeed part of the British Tissues conglomerate – and the main products were toilet paper and brown hand tissues. The mill was in the heart of the moorland near Garstang, and very difficult to get to in snowy winters – Dad always travelled with a spade and snow boots in the boot of his 1955 split-screen Morris Minor. He was made redundant when the mill closed in 1971.

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    15th February 2017 at 18:36 in reply to: Vale Paper Mill (Horwich) #649
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    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.

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