Balerno Bank Paper Mills
From Graces Guide
1916 The business was incorporated as a private company, John Galloway and Company Limited, Portobello Papermills, Bridge Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, with capital of £40,000, to acquire as a going concern the business of paper manufacturers and merchants carried on by Alfred Nicol and Co, and Alfred Nicol, the sole partner thereof.[1]
1926 The operations of the business were concentrated at the Balerno Bank Paper Mills. The company changed its name to Balerno Bank Paper Mills Limited in July 1935. This was in order to make its original name available to the new company which bought the business at that time for £226,208,6s.8d. The output of the mill was about 130 tons of paper per week, mainly high grade esparto paper.[2]
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Sources of Information
- National Records of Scotland BT2/9577