For added interest ….. Edwin Lees on page 198 of his 1856 book ‘Pictures of Nature’ mentions a paper mill near Alfrick, and I believe he talks about one of my ancestors. He says ….. “I remember the mill in its integrity, when a little depressed Welshman, struggling with poverty, and a large family, tried to make a living here by manufacturing a very coarse cap-paper. The poor fellow had a long way to take his paper to purchasers, by bad roads, in a rickety, yawning cart, drawn by a stumbling half-starved horse. He fought hard against destiny; but the excise were sharp upon him, and the Birmingham dealers cut him out. How could he contend against them? He gave up the struggle, went to turn paper into gold in Australia; and his mill, done up like himself, fell to pieces, and no one has cared to rebuild it. The stone that compressed his ragged materials, broken in two, alone remains to intimate that a mill once existed here; and the liberated stream rattles past with a scoffing cry.” The stream is the Leigh Brook and the area is now the Knapp and Papermill Nature Reserve. Roger -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.8/61 - Release Date: 01/08/2005