PARCHMENT FACTORY CLOSES
The oldest factory in England, which has been producing parchment for more than 1000 years, has closed owing to lack of orders from (ironically enough) .American universities. The factory is at Havant, Hampshire, and centuries ago was making parchment for the old monastries and State departments. King John signed Magna Charta at Hunnymede on its parchment, according to legend.' It was the proud boast of the factory that its product was the clearest and most durable because of the properties'of water from a well to which magic qualities were attributed locally..' During the Roman occupation this well was the sacred well of a temple which stood on the factory's site. For many years the factory had depended'on its American orders, as the demand for parchment in, Britain had practically ceased.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 16
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133PARCHMENT FACTORY CLOSES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 16
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