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Paper Mills In Nechells
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John Young
master brummie
Yo Loisand 
Yes its a very large "Paper Mill", actually its a Paper
re-processing Company,, reclaiming by "pulping" drying/reforming,
sheeting to "Mill" Rolls style for packaging etc.
Large site, can be viewed from the new road by "The Fort"
shopping place,, So my wife & daughter say,
Cuz i don,t go near "Shops" aargh! cheers John Y
Yes its a very large "Paper Mill", actually its a Paperre-processing Company,, reclaiming by "pulping" drying/reforming,
sheeting to "Mill" Rolls style for packaging etc.
Large site, can be viewed from the new road by "The Fort"
shopping place,, So my wife & daughter say,
Cuz i don,t go near "Shops" aargh! cheers John Y
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John Young
master brummie
The new SSK has improved the machinery a bit since this.
The Paper Rolls producing now measure abot 10ft high/15ft wide &
weigh about 4 ton,, just a guess,timate from me but they have quite
large Elec Motors ( 122kw & larger) processing the work.
Its really good to see a very old B,ham Company surviving
Good posts Folks,,Cheers John Y
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The Paper Rolls producing now measure abot 10ft high/15ft wide &
weigh about 4 ton,, just a guess,timate from me but they have quite
large Elec Motors ( 122kw & larger) processing the work.
Its really good to see a very old B,ham Company surviving
Good posts Folks,,Cheers John Y
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The piccies are great, John when you say you can see it from the fort would it be that massive building with smoke pillowing out of one of the chimneys, I think it's a recycle place now, or am I way of track. Gets confusing when the mills change there names from one to another. Thankyou all
Sorry John didn't read your first post, so I think I am right, I've answered my own question
Sorry John didn't read your first post, so I think I am right, I've answered my own question
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HI Mwonjm
ys you are quite correct its the same family and the same company and they started in a little yard
in long acre ; next to the pubs toilets of the rat pan and facing the arches across from aston station
they had a large hed with a office just inside the old broken green gates this is in the forties and early fifties
go on a saturday morning and you would have seen kids pushing and shoving infront of each other with all thre loads of news papers to weigh in if you was lucky enough you may have got the two bob or half a crown 2/6d
but more often than not you got a bob a shilling ; or 1/3d they ripped us kids off and the kids would say now and then to the bloke those scales are weighted ; they respond do not come back you cheeky blighty
they was then after decades sold and becomepart of the smith and stones my late mother inlaw worked inthe canteen
and as decades on they are in landor street but they first moved along the lichfield rd by the king edwrd pub facing
and now its the mulit national waste paper of the country ; as you see there bins all around brum ;
ys you are quite correct its the same family and the same company and they started in a little yard
in long acre ; next to the pubs toilets of the rat pan and facing the arches across from aston station
they had a large hed with a office just inside the old broken green gates this is in the forties and early fifties
go on a saturday morning and you would have seen kids pushing and shoving infront of each other with all thre loads of news papers to weigh in if you was lucky enough you may have got the two bob or half a crown 2/6d
but more often than not you got a bob a shilling ; or 1/3d they ripped us kids off and the kids would say now and then to the bloke those scales are weighted ; they respond do not come back you cheeky blighty
they was then after decades sold and becomepart of the smith and stones my late mother inlaw worked inthe canteen
and as decades on they are in landor street but they first moved along the lichfield rd by the king edwrd pub facing
and now its the mulit national waste paper of the country ; as you see there bins all around brum ;
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
(2012)....Birmingham's last paper mill celebrates 150 years....
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birminghams-last-paper-mill-celebrates-186878
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birminghams-last-paper-mill-celebrates-186878
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Here are the paper makers listed in Kellys in 1880
It appears that Smith, Stone and Knight had also traded as the Birmingham Paper Mills Co, Landor Street, in 1882.
In 1894 another Company....Smith, Stone and Knight was formed to acquire Union Paper Mills, Landor Street, the Birmingham Paper Mills, Cattle Grove and the Aston Paper Mills, Chester Road. Also included was the business of Messrs Smith, Stone and Knight at their three mills and elsewhere.
The new Co would carry on the business of paper making and have capital of £150,000 in £10 shares.
Hi pedro
Yes cattle grove nechells was smith and stone, knight and my late mother inlaw
Worked there in the canteen many years ago
She lived over the back from them in clements road her name was Annie an Irish lady
And my younger brother whom came out of the forces in the late seventys
Worked for them down landor street he was one of the lorry drivers ,sadly
He died a few years back now he was a popular lad and alot of the work force attended
His funeral and two of them carried his coffin in and out of the church
And took him to lodge hill crematary
Best wishes Astonian,,,,
Yes cattle grove nechells was smith and stone, knight and my late mother inlaw
Worked there in the canteen many years ago
She lived over the back from them in clements road her name was Annie an Irish lady
And my younger brother whom came out of the forces in the late seventys
Worked for them down landor street he was one of the lorry drivers ,sadly
He died a few years back now he was a popular lad and alot of the work force attended
His funeral and two of them carried his coffin in and out of the church
And took him to lodge hill crematary
Best wishes Astonian,,,,
What i can tell you is that this waste paper business started in Aston/nechells all those years ago
From a small yard at the bottom of Holborn Hill where it was only a tatters yard for metal
And it had a very huge shedding and one large scales just inside the old large dirty green gates
And in the eartly years of business they had hundreds of kids from around the area
From Aston ,and from the local parts of Nechells to bring news papers and etc
To them and they would pay them a little sum of pennies for it
I cannot recall the weight of news paper what you got payed for it it was merely penies
If you had enough weight yo could get a ten bob note for it
But more often than not it was seven and a kick ,or five bob, two hakf crowns
Or if lucky to have enough weight to get the three half crowns it was 7/6d three and a kick
Or you got the old ten bob note which more often than not it was seven and a kick
This was happening up in the 1940s through to abojt the 1950:s when that ceased
And they accumalated from commercial means then they moved to lichfield road
Towards the resser and from there they really lifted off to cattle grove
Then they was rapped up with the bigger company this was birmingham paper mills
Landor street thats wher all this started from little yard in The bottom of Holburn hill
Facing the scrapp yards which was across the other sice oif the arches of Aston station
Every saturday morning very early in the morning all kids from Nechells And from around the lichfield road
Would be dashing down to Aston Station and holborn hill
And start queing up with push chairs of all sorts of discription even wheel barows
Laden with news paoers stacked up high kt would be two abreast ques pushing and shoving trying
To sqeeze in the que it was just like the old ques of the gas yard queing for coal/coke
Down the Avenue
May I Add this topic about the paper mills and waste paper was on this forum over 13 years ago
When i joined this forum i actualy gave more info on it before in those days
Like most of our older members did ,that being the members whom may be here still or may have left us now
Best wishes to all Astonian,,,,
From a small yard at the bottom of Holborn Hill where it was only a tatters yard for metal
And it had a very huge shedding and one large scales just inside the old large dirty green gates
And in the eartly years of business they had hundreds of kids from around the area
From Aston ,and from the local parts of Nechells to bring news papers and etc
To them and they would pay them a little sum of pennies for it
I cannot recall the weight of news paper what you got payed for it it was merely penies
If you had enough weight yo could get a ten bob note for it
But more often than not it was seven and a kick ,or five bob, two hakf crowns
Or if lucky to have enough weight to get the three half crowns it was 7/6d three and a kick
Or you got the old ten bob note which more often than not it was seven and a kick
This was happening up in the 1940s through to abojt the 1950:s when that ceased
And they accumalated from commercial means then they moved to lichfield road
Towards the resser and from there they really lifted off to cattle grove
Then they was rapped up with the bigger company this was birmingham paper mills
Landor street thats wher all this started from little yard in The bottom of Holburn hill
Facing the scrapp yards which was across the other sice oif the arches of Aston station
Every saturday morning very early in the morning all kids from Nechells And from around the lichfield road
Would be dashing down to Aston Station and holborn hill
And start queing up with push chairs of all sorts of discription even wheel barows
Laden with news paoers stacked up high kt would be two abreast ques pushing and shoving trying
To sqeeze in the que it was just like the old ques of the gas yard queing for coal/coke
Down the Avenue
May I Add this topic about the paper mills and waste paper was on this forum over 13 years ago
When i joined this forum i actualy gave more info on it before in those days
Like most of our older members did ,that being the members whom may be here still or may have left us now
Best wishes to all Astonian,,,,
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
In the chapter there is mention of the firm Smith, Stone and Knight. The Stone referred to is Sir John Benjamin Stone and for further info concerning the Company and the man himself see the thread "Benjamin Stone" post 15.....
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/benjamin-stone.35043/#post-578857