Report - Robert Fletchers Paper Mill, Greenfield - December 2023

[TalkingMask]

I'm a few hours away but might visit

Should do so if you’re in the area, let me know if you’d do as it’d be a good little mooch, plus I was right that room has tons of meters you’d appreciate for your panel

 

[tumbles]

Went for a visit today. Whilst the fun part is completely flattened there is still some lovely little bits left. Seeing things i recognised in the rubble was quite sad, I recognised the back of the crane that was in the digester hall which was quite grim

Finally got around to seeing the boiler and turbine house but it had gotten dark and wet so the photos aren’t the best, saw security when leaving so I couldn’t see much else unfortunately. There is LOTS to see in that little building that Jaffa mentioned but trust me, it’s much better to see it yourself if you can as it’s lovely

Turbine Hall

The rover is still there funnily enough

Boilers

Lovely stuff, the boiler house was the first building I ever got in at Fletchers some 17 years ago. Glad to see its still providing some gems still.

 

[host]

That’s a good shout that if there still intact.

—This might be of interest. Purico who owned Fletchers also ran a much smaller teabag tissue mill in heywood. They traded under the name union papertech at Cromptons mill in the cheesden brook valley. My grandad worked there for 10ish years, and I remember him mentioning that they ran about 4 to 5 1950s Bertram’s beaters there aswell. Similar Like the ones at fletchers. Anyway the mill went bust in Covid, and that I know everything got left like fletchers. I bet you any money the beaters got left behind because they are pretty much no use to anybody thesedays, completely obsolete now as there’s no big fine tissue industry in the UK anymore. Where it gets very interesting is that they ran very similar Paper rolling machines to the 2 at fletchers in the main room- similar age and type. He reckons there not at the stage of scrapping yet. I think it’s the missing chapter of the book if you ask me. It will be very intact and preserved. Obviously I doubt the purico empire will allow us permission access, but you never know eh!

Maybe one day il get to see it 🥴

Thank you so much for sharing this information! I’m going to do some research into this. I would love to visit!

If this is where I’m thinking it is it’s been done and a report is in NP. Myself and Albino jay did it early on in the year.

 

[TalkingMask]

If this is where I’m thinking it is it’s been done and a report is in NP. Myself and Albino jay did it early on in the year.

I was thinking somewhere like this must’ve been done if it was shut down last year, gotta check it out, any good from what you remember?