fletchers

Taken my time getting this written up, but thought I'd post my take on this old classic as it's now been partially demolished. As soon as I heard they were finally tearing it down, I dragged my arse up north as I've never gotten around to doing it. We were pretty thorough, but with the sheer...

Introduction The previous challenges of climbing and high security made it seem unlikely for me to ever see Fletcher’s. Fortunately, towards the end of last year, there was a period where security appeared to ease up a bit. Me and @JakeV50 decided to take advantage of this and finally give it a...

First report after a long time lurking! A bit of history from another thread but everybody knows this one: A mill has been stationed here for over 200 years with Robert Fletcher & Son commencing the business of cigarette paper manufacturing in 1921. At its height, it employed 1000 people to...