{"id":190,"date":"2010-02-14T19:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-11-17T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T00:01:27","slug":"guardbridge-paper-mill-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/paper-mills\/guardbridge-paper-mill-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardbridge Paper Mill Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I first visited Guardbridge in May 2009<\/a>, not long after it closed – it was a lovely mill to visit, absolutely mint. Now, though, it’s quite different – 9 months in the hands of the receivers have not been kind. I’ll put before and after pictures when I can work them out.<\/p>\n

First, the power plant – this is one of the parts that will be retained as it’s a listed structure.<\/p>\n

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Next, the former turbine house next door.<\/p>\n

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With some interesting stuff left behind – some models and old pictures, plus stacks and stacks of plans.<\/p>\n

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Next, on to the dandy roller store – the dandy roller is what puts the watermark on to the paper.<\/p>\n

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Onto the paper machines – first machine no. 3.<\/p>\n

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Then down the stairs to machines 4 and 5 – and one machine has gone.<\/p>\n

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May 2009:<\/p>\n

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February 2010:<\/p>\n

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The drying drums have been stripped out, and are scattered about.<\/p>\n

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Despite appearances, these machines aren’t being scrapped – they’re being packed and shipped to Egypt.<\/p>\n

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The main offices were sealed up tight last May – now they’re open, and completely stripped apart from some photographs and promotional materials.<\/p>\n

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Down on the ground floor is the front desk, the mill shop, and an award.<\/p>\n

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Also on the ground floor is the computer room, still with everything powered up and screensavers running.<\/p>\n

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Security seem to be into gardening.<\/p>\n

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Back up, and into the salle – the packing and shipping department, now stripped out.<\/p>\n

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And spot the difference – May 2009:<\/p>\n

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And February 2010:<\/p>\n

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Speaking of clocks, I found the workings for the clock on the front of the mill.<\/p>\n

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The power was off, but I set it to the right time…<\/p>\n

Watch a full-screen slideshow<\/a>, or browse the full image collection:<\/p>\n

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I first visited Guardbridge in May 2009, not long after it closed – it was a lovely mill to visit, absolutely mint. Now, though, it’s quite different – 9 months in the hands of the receivers have not been kind. I’ll put before and after pictures when I can work them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-mills"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4356953546_8f8ef092c8_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-34","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}