On this website you can find out about Tuckenhay Paper Mill in South Devon, England.
This operated from about 1830 until 1970, and for most of this time manufactured high-quality hand-made paper.
My interest is that my family worked in the paper-making industry for well over a hundred years, and at the mill at Tuckenhay for more than seventy years.
But I know very little about papermaking myself ! So, other than text that appears in italics (like this), which I have written myself ...
... all the information on this website is drawn directly from original sources. These are primarily:
| [1] | "One of Devon's Industrial Hamlets. Tuckenhay. Section III - Paper Mill" | 1969 | Richard Evans |
| [2] | "Handmade Paper in Tuckenhay Devon" | 1977 | Catherine Cox |
| [3] | "The Story of Handmade Paper by the Actual Makers" | 1924 | Handmade paper industry |
| [4] | "Storm in a Teacup" | 1919 | Eden Phillpotts |
[1] is reproduced by kind permission of Richard Evans
[2] is reproduced by kind permission of the estate of Catherine Cox
[3] is an advertising booklet with no copyright asserted
[4] the text of the entire novel is readily available on the internet
UK census data for 1841-1901 is reproduced by permission of the National Archives.
Engravings used to illustrate this website are drawn from [3]
Old photographs & maps on this website were scanned in from originals in the 'family showbox' or are credited where they appear.
Recent photographs on this website were taken by me.