EPW047728 ENGLAND (1935). Aylesford Paper Mills, Ditton, 1935

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Details

Title [EPW047728] Aylesford Paper Mills, Ditton, 1935
Reference EPW047728
Date June-1935
Link
Place name DITTON
Parish DITTON
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 571283, 159844
Longitude / Latitude 0.45787154211012, 51.3113886896
National Grid Reference TQ713598

Pins

Water intake from the River Medway. Large pumps were installed to abstract water which was settled before use. As there was little effluent cleaning the intake was upstream of the discharge, however when the tide was coming in the incoming water was considerably dirtier than when the fresh water was running down river. Mill was strategically placed within yards of the "limit of estuarial water". Upstream of this point the were controls on pollution levels; here there were, in the 1920s, few if any. Maidstone Sewage treatment works were built of the opposite bank of the river

CBen
Thursday 15th of May 2014 02:37:14 PM
Mill houses for long term employees and retirees.

CBen
Thursday 15th of May 2014 02:20:40 PM
In this area the original contractors buildings were converted to mill offices. They continued to be used into the 1980s, albeit the some including the Mill Manager's (Ron de Grey) were very well fitted out with wood panelling.

CBen
Thursday 15th of May 2014 02:19:23 PM
The part of the mill on this side of the railway known as East Mill. Where the original machines were started in 1922 making newsprint.

CBen
Thursday 15th of May 2014 02:14:37 PM
Ferry House - presumably from before the mill was built in the 1920s. Later offices for the mill.

CBen
Thursday 15th of May 2014 02:12:47 PM