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Thank you for this. We have walked past the Mill when walking the canal: but now we will be motivated to make a special expedition!
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Well I never made the connection between Croxley Script and the Hertfordshire town until now. Thanks for telling the story and explaining the link.
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Excellent post on a local attraction!
Two other points may be of of interest: 1. During WW2 Aplsey made paper mache drop tanks for the RAF and USAF and 2. It was the birthplace of that well know secret agent Bond, Basildon Bond |
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Great read, thank you.
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How fascinating. I've been to Croxley (occasional visitor to Watford and St Albans) and once to Hemel, but had never made the connection with the familiar paper.
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The volunteer fire brigade was very active at the Croxley mill. As children we would enjoy watching them have their evening hose reel drills on a piece of Croxley Moor by the mill entrance. Water was sprayed everywhere.
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Are you going to all the places called Frogmore ? There seems to be at least seven more to go, plus some Frogmore Farms.
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Thank for this DG.
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For a third Frogmore, Can I recommend Wandsworth, just off the one-way system running to Putney Bridge Road. Council depot, private school and some very extensive Thames Tideway tunnel works including a new bridge over the Wandle.
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Me too - although I guess growing up in Australia I have an excuse re the connection between the my grandmother's little letter writing pads (I recall the Croxley name and Basildon Bond... always with a sheet of blotting paper, from memory) and the town... But lovely to have the back story.
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That was a very informative article, DG. You're becoming a national treasure!
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Charming piece
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Looks like I might have to take a visit, likewise for the Croxley connection (being formerly of that parish myself). Indeed, my mother worked for a while in the old Croxley mill before she became a full-time housewife and occasional Labour candidate in the Ward elections, which were regularly lost despite the gargantuan amount of flyers they used to print...
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Two Frogmore's in two days. It can't be a concidence!
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It was sad to see the Croxley mill being demolished (1981) but fortunately we didn't move into our nearby house until the job was finished - the dust everywhere was filthy. But I'll make an effort to get to the remnants of Apsley Mills (where that was demolished, the resulting new office estate is called Dolittle (meadows) Business Park, D'Oh).
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Fascinating article. Having worked my gap year in the mid 70s at a Wiggins Teape site in South Bucks and having been taken on a tour of two more of their paper making sites in Ely and Treforest, both in South Wales, and seen full sized machines in production mode I am inspired to visit Frogmore Mill. I had no idea of its existence, nor of its formative part in the UK paper making business.
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My boat took one of the last loads of coal to Croxley Mill, on August 24th, 1970 (the very last load was four days later).
I wrote quite a long blog post about it here, inspired by a photo dg posted, and here is a photo I was subsequently sent of Chertsey (my boat) being unloaded there. I'm hoping to recreate the journey on its fiftieth anniversary in 2020. |
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