9 Sept. 2025: Frogmore Paper Mill reopens for guided tours on Wednesday 15th October, with tours at 11am and 2pm every Wednesday and Thursday thereafter. The team could not be more delighted at the advent of getting back to do what we do best by inviting the general public back to see what we have been doing in the last three years – with a bit of paper history added in!

So called ‘hard hat’ tours, will allow the Apsley Paper Trail, to reveal the restoration so far in total safety. The highlight of the tour will be the stunning roof which now tops the Machine House of Fourdrinier No.2. This building was constructed in 1906 for the paper machine’s arrival the following year and now stripped of asbestos, all leaks and darkness gone. The repaired beams, pulleys and dials look resplendent in natural sunlight. Along the way we discovered evidence of an earlier fire, which with a little research uncovered this excerpt from Austin Pilkington’s ‘Frogmore and the First Fourdrinier’.

The Mill did have a serious fire in 1942. The steam engine made by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, together with the line-shafting that drove the beaters and pulpers, were severely damaged.
So with men and materials in short supply it was a daunting prospect that faced Bill Searle, chief millwright, that morning. A building licence was quickly obtained from the Ministry of Works and building and restoration work proceeded promptly. It is to Bill’s great credit that with largely unskilled help he had the Mill up and running within four months.
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We have taken a little longer! The 21st century repairs have been completed with much care and skill, coming under the curtilage of the Grade 2 listing of the Mill Managers House but we are well on the way to developing the centre as we wish it to be; an accessible, stimulating, vibrant museum, which will be future proof and sustainable. Paper is one of the greenest industries, together with Frogmore’s solid history of recycling we now launch a Crowdfunder to ensure a sustainable future https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/greenfrogmore

Tour booking will be via our soon to be launched website at www.frogmorepapermill.org.uk