POUND-NOTE VILLAGE
; Ruin faces St.-Mary Cray (England). The Pound Note Village, where the first pound notes were made. Because of a slump in trade the old paper mill, on which the village has.depended for 150 years, is closing. For generations. the mill was devoted to the production of costly writing paper, and in more recent years has made all the paper for Treasury; notes (says the-. "-Sunday Express"). 'But writing-paper of quality does not sell as freely as it used to, because people prefer the telephone to writing long letters; and .business houses are economising iv stationery. The second blow that St. Mary Cray suffered was the: Bank of England's decision to make its own currency paper. So a few woeks. hence the-, mill, will be idle for. the,first time since the reign of George 111.. ../','..'.'•' ~ -
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 23
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136POUND-NOTE VILLAGE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 23
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