HUNDREDS of workers downed tools at Darwen Paper Mill to pay tribute to managing director George Rackley who had died four days before.
They lined a section of Bolton Road as the funeral procession headed to Darwen Cemetery for a burial service. Representatives from paper manufacturing companies across the country travelled to Darwen for the service.
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