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Guardbridge, Main Street, Paper Mill

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Oblique aerial view centred on the town and paper mill, taken from the SE.
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Oblique aerial view centred on the old bridge, rail bridge and new road bridge, taken from the NE.
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Copy of photograph of Guard Bridge Paper Mills proposed reclaimation on shore of River Eden
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Copy of photograph of paper machine no.?6
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Photographic copy of View of original No.3 Machine
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Copy of group photograph, Directors of Guardbridge paper company limited and other views of the site taken c. 1900
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Extract from the current  Ordnance Survey 1:10000 map, and extract from the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, first edition, Fife, 1856, sheet 6.
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, first floor showing No.4 Trim Refiner.
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Interior. Building 3. No. 4 Paper Machine House, ground floor. Dry end of No.4 Paper Making Machine.
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Interior. Building 2. Stock Preparation House, first floor. Control Room.
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View. Main Street Frontage, detail of Building 14 (former engine house of No.3 Paper Machine)  [pre 1888].
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Interior. Building 4, first floor, Control panel, Broke Recovery.
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Interior. Building 17, ground floor. No.5 Machine Plant Room. View of east elevation with steam receiver in foreground.
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Possible shed for electric locomotive (NO45084 19447), between Reel Paper Store (Building 21) (left) and Calender House (Building 6), right. View of west elevation, note embedded rails in foreground.
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General view. West Yard Central showing remnants of distillery buldings from SSE. Railway entrance on left.
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Interior. Building 7, Finishing Department:, adjacent to former Calender House (Building 6). View of finishing Department, Multiple reel sheter cutting to A4 size.
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Interior. Building 7, Finishing Department:, adjacent to former Calender House (Building 6). View of partly dismantled sheeting machine.
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General view of Wood Pulp Storage Sheds (Building 1) looking north, with 1928 4-bay store to north and 3-bay extension nearerest camera.
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Interior. Building 1, Wood Pulp Storage showing Conveyors and Pulpers nos.1 (centre, behind Buffer Tank) and 3 (right). Control Room (grey wall) on 1st floor adjacent to Pulper no.1. Charles Whittaker (production manager) and Miriam McDonald (RCAHMS) to left of picture
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Interior. Adjacent to Building 7, Finishing Section. View of A4 sheet cutting and sorting (building 70A)
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William Haig and Sons Guardbridge Paper Co. Paper Mill, Main Street, Guardbridge.  Oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
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Oblique aerial view centred on the town and paper mill, taken from the SSW.
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Oblique aerial view centred on the paper mill, taken from the E.
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Copy of photograph of paper making machine (no.6), High Speed Refiners clear the stock. These units are manufactured by JBS under licence from ED JONES and Sons, Co., Pittsfield, USA and Drum Strainers made by JBS allowed the final screening of the stock to ensure good wire formation. The drums are 3 feet in diameter, 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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