Stowmarket Papermaking Co

1871 Sale notice: 'STOWMARKET PAPERMAKING COMPANY (LIMITED).
PAPER MILL, Erected within ths last six years, and fitted by Messrs. Easton, Amos, and Co., with most approved modern Machinery for manufacturing Paper from Straw or Esparto, equal the production of 20 tons of Paper weekly ; with possession.
Messrs. FULLER, HORSEY, SON, and Co. Are instructed by the Liquidator of the Stowmarket Papermaking Company (Limited) to SELL by AUCTION, at the Auction Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, London, on Wednesday, 17th May, at 1 o'clock precisely, in one lot, THE newly-erected PAPER MILL, at Stowmarket, Suffolk, immediately adjacent to the station of the Great Eastern Railway and with siding therefrom. The land comprises a site of about two acres in extent, and the buildings were erected under the direction of the eminent firm of engineers, Messrs. Eastons, Amos, and Anderson, and fitted with the most approved modern machinery. There is a large straw bin, a straw chopping house, the upper story fitted with wrought iron water tank (3,160 gallons), supplied from an artesian well 366 feet deep, liquor tank, two straw chopping machines; the ground floor fitted with a 6-inch Appold's pump for the well, and a double-action pump for black liquor, also a rope chopping machine, a boiling house, fitted with four Easton and Thiry’s patent cylindrical straw boilers, chymical house with soda ash dissolving tanks, cast iron hot water tank, two wrought and one cast iron subsiding tanks and bleach mixer, a steam boiler house with three double-flue Cornish steam boilers, a lofty chimney shaft, steam engine house, fitted with compound double cylinder beam engine of 46-horse power nominal, rag engine and bleach house, fitted with Stuart's American beater, seven one-ton cast iron washing engines with drum washers, three cast iron bleach tanks, stuff chest, pressing and cleansing machine, Appold’s pump, centrifugal pump and a double-action pump, felt washing machine, four 2cwt. iron beating engines with drum washers, two 2cwt. washing engines, American beating machine house with two stuff chests, 90-inch papermaking machine with two pair press rolls, eight steam drying cylinders, glazing rolls, Amos and Clark's cutting machine, Tidcombe’s detached reel cutting machine, 12-horse power grasshopper beam engine, a brick-built solle at end of bleaching-house, a warehouse adjoining, brick-built offices of two stories. On the hill is a carbide filter with pipes capable of filtering water sufficient for all bleached material, and for the paper machine.
A railway intersects the works, having two waggon turn tables, a 20-ton weigh bridge, Esparto boiling-house, two brick-built cottages, large open shed on columns with tiled roof, with two large wrought-iron evaporating tanks, and a large incinerating furnace; there are spacious yards properly fenced from the railway with gateway entrance, and adjoining land can be had if required.
The Works are held by a lease for a term of 99 lease from 24th June, 1864, at a ground-rent of £106 per annum, with liberty to purchase the fee for £2,000; the land-tax is redeemed. At a short distance from the mill is piece of freehold land, whereon has been formed three large settling backs for the waste deposit from the mills. The Works may be viewed at any time by special order, to be had of the Auctioneers. Printed particulars, with plans, are in course of preparation, and may shortly be had of S. J. Cooke, Esq., official liquidator, 47a, Moorgate-street of Messrs. Kimber and Ellis, solicitors, 79, Lombard-street; the Estate Exchange and Auction Mart, Tokenhouse-yard; and of Messrs. Fuller, Horsey, Son, and Co., 11, Billiton-square, E.C.'

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