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Guardbridge, Main Street, Paper Mill

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Interior. Building 2, Stock Preparation House, first floor. View inside one of No. 4 Paper Machine blend chests, showing the ceramic -tile lined interior and the motor driven agitator.
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Interior. Building 17, No. 5 Paper Machine area, ground floor. View of calendar stack at dry end during maintenence
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Interior. Building 1, Wood Pulp Storage Sheds. General interior view of Wood Pulp Storage.
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Interior. Building 1, main panel in Control Room in Wood Pulp Storage Sheds.
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Interior. Clay Mixing House, looking south, showing Gallery Vats (disused on date of visit) on the right behind Charles Whittaker (production manager). The blue tank and the dosing pumps on the left fed additives to the clay mixing Gallery Vats.
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Interior. Building 3, ground floor, Dry end of No.4 Paper Making Machine.
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General view. Main Road frontage in Guardbridge looking north.
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The Last Mill on the Eden: Guardbridge Paper Mill, Fife Industrial Archaeology Review, XXXI:2, 2009, Figure 7.
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William Haig and Sons Guardbridge Paper Co. Paper Mill, Main Street, Guardbridge. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west.
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Copy of photograph of paper making machine (no.6), 'Leith Walk' patent vertical type Shake Motion and is driven through Vee ropes by a variable speed commutator motor, from the JB&S Machine 161 catalogue, James Bertram and Son Ltd, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, circa 1953. The catalogue describes and illustrates some of the features of the No 161 machine 'recently installed at the well known Mill of Guard Bridge Paper Co Ltd, Fife , Scotland designed with the co-operation of the Mill Staff especially for the economical production of the highest quality papers...'
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Copy of photograph of paper making machine (no.6), Wet Press Section comprises two presses, the first being the straight through suction type with 'Millspaugh' Suction Roll and the second, a plain reversing press. Both the top granite rollers are carried in roller bearings in spherical housings. The cast-steel levers supporting these rolls are equipped with double acting air cylinders for applying pressure as well as raising clear when changing felts, from the JB&S Machine 161 catalogue, James Bertram and Son Ltd, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, circa 1953. The catalogue describes and illustrates some of the features of the No 161 machine 'recently installed at the well known Mill of Guard Bridge Paper Co Ltd, Fife , Scotland designed with the co-operation of the Mill Staff especially for the economical production of the highest quality papers...'
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, first floor, south wall. Hydrosieve for No.4 papermaking machine.
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, ground floor. No.5 machine hydrochlone.
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Interior. Building 18. No.6 Paper Machine. Rolls of No.6 Paper Making Machine.
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Interior. Former Turbine House/ Power Station (NO45070 79625) showing the control panel for the British Thomson-Houston steam turbine electricity generator.
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View. N end of site. Old Reel Trolley on waste ground to the north of the Motray Water.
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View. N end of site. Old Reel Trolley on waste ground to the north of the Motray Water used to move paper machine reels.
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View over sites of Seggie Siding, Railway Sheds and Reservoir, looking north west.
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Interior. Building 4, first floor. Broke Revovery area looking towards Stock Preparation plant for Paper Machine No. 3 which was housed in this area since 2003. The Batch chest is on the right, the blend chest and headbox behind, with the hydrasieve just visible. The hydrapulpers are out of shot.
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Electrical Workshops (NO45175 19582). View looking south east.
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Interior. Building 2, ground floor. Stock Preparation House. No.4 Machine Blending Cone (to right).
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Interior. Building 19, No. 3 Paper Machine House, wet end pipes from pressure screen carrying stock to flowbox (out of shot on left).
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Interior. Building 2, Stock Preparation House, first floor. View from N looking towards machine chests, batch chests and refiners. Kraft square chests in foreground.
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Interior. Building 20, original No.3 Paper Machine House now used as a storage area. Dandy Rolls in one of several dandy roll stores on site.
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