RE your article (April 20) regarding a "relic" used for envelope making.
This MG cylinder was used for making envelope paper and as in use at the Waterside Paper Mill owned by Mr H Guest of Bolton. Chapman of Balham, London bought the mill in 1937 and renamed it New Waterside Paper Mills Ltd.
The small MG cylinder was in use then, but in 1954 it was replaced by a new cylinder on another paper making machine as part of the development of the mill which then had two paper making machines in operation.
In 1952, Chapman and Co. started the envelope factory known as Grimshaw Brook Mill and has been developed since then as a modern envelope production unit and called "Chapman Envelopes."
The small MG cylinder was kept at New Waterside Paper Mills as a memento to the paper trade and also because of its history.
Mr Kenric Chapman always called it "Little Margaret" and most of the older employees knew it as such.
It will certainly be a reminder of the paper trade to many people in Darwen.
GEORGE SPENCER, Vancouver Crescent, Blackburn.
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