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Guardbridge, Main Street, Paper Mill

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The Last Mill on the Eden: Guardbridge Paper Mill, Fife Industrial Archaeology Review, XXXI:2, 2009, Figure 9.
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Ground floor site plan of 'Curtis Fine Papers Ltd' created in Autocad
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Oblique aerial view.
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Oblique aerial view centred on the paper mill, taken from the NW.
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General oblique aerial view of Leuchars airfield with the paper mill at Guardbridge in the foreground, taken from the SW.
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Copy of photograph of paper making machine (no.6), a double VEE tapered breast box of stainless steel and adjustable deckle head with flexible slice control of the flow of stock to the wire. The table rolls and underwire rolls are equipped with sealed ball bearings, as are the deckle pulleys. Three AQUAIR vacuum pumps, two LEITH WALK centrifugal pumps for back water and couch pit trimmings, together with a copper air receiver are installed at the back of the machine, 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), Smoothing and Damping Rolls in a vertical stack are installed before the last section of drying cylinders. Each pair of rolls is separately driven through enclosed gearing at the back of the machine, 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 advertising poster from Guardbridge entitled 'Keep to the Safety Lanes with GB branded papers' showing a a branded truck ('Guard Bridge Paper Makers') on the road
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Copy of photograph of STOCK PREPARATION: View of original Beater House where rags were beaten or fibrillated to break up the fibres.
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Group photograph of major paper makers in Scotland. (undated)
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Extract from the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, second edition, Fife, 1896, sheet VIII.NE. and extract from the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, second edition, Fife, 1914, sheet VIII.
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Paper sheeting machine in the finishing section (7) at Guardbridge Paper Mill, showing the reel handling equipment overhead and the dust extractors.
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Interior. Finished Goods Shed (building 8) looking north
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Interior. Building 20. Dandy Roll Store (1) showing Dandy Rolls in racking.
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Interior. Building 4. Broke Bleaching Plant, first floor west bleaching chest looking S.
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, first floor. Refiners looking NW.
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Interior. Building 3. No.4 Paper Machine House, ground floor. Stage 3 hydroclone of No.4 Paper Making Machine.
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Interior. Building 3. No.4 Paper Machine House, ground floor. No. 4 Paper Machine Calender stack.
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Interior. Building 1. Wood Pulp Storage Shed (north). Pressure Screen, dumped inside Pulp Store. Example of interior of a pressure screen.
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View of Building 5. Effluent Treatment Plant: detail of Sludge Thickener Tank being dismantled and Ferrous Chloride Tank, looking south east.
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Interior. Building 14. Engine House for original No. 3 Paper Machine. Detail of fireplace on north wall.
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, ground floor looking S, showing bases of stock chests; L to R: 4 Pulp Store, 5 Pulp Store (with pink staining), High White Broke and Back Broke, Front Broke Tower (centre).
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, ground floor showing no.6 Machine Chest.
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, ground floor, No.5 Broke Tower, view looking to south east.
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